XP will not load with NIC card installed

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Justin

When I install my NIC card XP hangs while loading. If I
boot into safe mode I see about 13 or so different things
in the device manager under network cards. If I try to
delete any of them I get an error stating that the
uninstall failed because the device is required for
boot. I've never seen that message before and this is
the first time I've never been unable to remove a device
from device manager. Any ideas?
 
Try physically removing the network card, boot up, remove all the items in
network adapters, reboot, then shut down and try reinstalling. After that,
if it still doesn't work, look into there being a conflicting IRQ, IO
Address or DMA. It should be set by plug and play, so check your bios to
see if plug and play is enabled. If it's an old NIC card, you may have to
set jumpers on the card to assign it an available IRQ IO Address and DMA.

-James
 
Had a similar problem on an IBM Pentium4 running W2K.The
NIC is integrated into the m/b, there were no IRQ,IO add
or DMAconflicts and Plug&Play was enabled. NIC Chip was
a Intel Pro 100 VE. And no matter how many times u
try,the device has that annoying Exclamation mark in
Device Mgr and just cannot be deleted.
any solutions?
thanks
 
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