P4C800-E Deluxe Can"t Get On Board Lan To Load

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Help. I installed this MB with a P4 3.0 GHz processor, Windows 98SE, 512
DDR PC3200 (2 x 256) single sided Crucial, GeForce 440 64 meg Video card,
2 - Maxtor ata 133 HD, CD drive and Floppy drive. Everything went fine
till I tried to install the Pro/1000 onboard LAN. Installing from the ASUS
system CD goes fine until I have to reboot. The system heads for a safe
mode reboot and but goes instead to a recovery of the registry and a reboot.
When it goes on to load Windows, the system gives me the following message
and hangs:

"VFAT DEVICE INITIALIZATION FAILED
A device or resource required by VFAT is not present or
is unavailable. VFAT cannot continue loading.
SYSTEM HALTED"

I then have to reboot and start all over. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in
advance for your help.
Bob
 
Robert Longdon said:
Help. I installed this MB with a P4 3.0 GHz processor, Windows 98SE, 512
DDR PC3200 (2 x 256) single sided Crucial, GeForce 440 64 meg Video card,
2 - Maxtor ata 133 HD, CD drive and Floppy drive. Everything went fine
till I tried to install the Pro/1000 onboard LAN. Installing from the ASUS
system CD goes fine until I have to reboot. The system heads for a safe
mode reboot and but goes instead to a recovery of the registry and a reboot.
When it goes on to load Windows, the system gives me the following message
and hangs:

"VFAT DEVICE INITIALIZATION FAILED
A device or resource required by VFAT is not present or
is unavailable. VFAT cannot continue loading.
SYSTEM HALTED"

I then have to reboot and start all over. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in
advance for your help.
Bob
Click to expand...
Should have mentioned that I still have the version 1011 Bios that came on
the MB.
Bob
 
Robert Longdon said:
Should have mentioned that I still have the version 1011 Bios that came on
the MB.
Bob
Click to expand...

My board runs fine with on-board LAN, though the original BIOS, probably
version 09,
did not let me install Linux.

Update BIOS makes it work in both Windows and Linux, including that LAN.

You may delete the network device and reinstall from accompanied CD.

Good luck.

Max
 
W98se? surely you jest! spend a few bucks for decent operating system to
go with this rather beefy hardware.
 
Well, my first strong advice would be to use a newer OS. Running Windows 98
on such a system is like putting 13" Geo Metro tires on a Ferrari. (You
can't use HyperThreading if your CPU supports it, for one thing..)
 
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