XP won't boot up after changing NIC. Any help would be appreciated

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Here's the situation. Hopefully in enough detail.

I am running XP Pro with all updates on a 1ghz 512meg AMD computer. I have
an old NIC in it, a generic 10meg 3Com card. I recently upgraded my
connection to FIOS so I want to replace the 3Com with a Linksys. When I take
out the old NIC and put in the new one, my system won't boot up.

I've tried the following things:
Uninstall old NIC, then insert new in PCI slot, system won't boot
Uninstall old NIC, no NIC in system, it boots up fine
I've gone into safe mode, checked to make sure it's been uninstalled, it has.

I've tried more than 1 Linksys adapter, including one from the computer next
to this one that works, same result.

So to recap. System boots fine with old NIC. Boots fine with no NIC. Won't
boot up with new Linksys (or another new generic 100meg NIC) physically
installed in PCI slot.

I am not overly technical, I've never had a problem before replacing any
piece of hardware with another one. This has me stumped. Hopefully someone
can help.

Thanks,
Skip
 
SkipMDMan said:
Here's the situation. Hopefully in enough detail.

I am running XP Pro with all updates on a 1ghz 512meg AMD computer. I have
an old NIC in it, a generic 10meg 3Com card. I recently upgraded my
connection to FIOS so I want to replace the 3Com with a Linksys. When I take
out the old NIC and put in the new one, my system won't boot up.

I've tried the following things:
Uninstall old NIC, then insert new in PCI slot, system won't boot
Uninstall old NIC, no NIC in system, it boots up fine
I've gone into safe mode, checked to make sure it's been uninstalled, it has.

I've tried more than 1 Linksys adapter, including one from the computer next
to this one that works, same result.

So to recap. System boots fine with old NIC. Boots fine with no NIC. Won't
boot up with new Linksys (or another new generic 100meg NIC) physically
installed in PCI slot.

I am not overly technical, I've never had a problem before replacing any
piece of hardware with another one. This has me stumped. Hopefully someone
can help.

Thanks,
Skip
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Try:

- a different slot.

- removing the sound card. Many times the NIC uses the same interrupt
as the sound card.

- a different brand of NIC. A different brand might use a different
interrupt, or might have a jumper to change its interrupt.

- a hardware newsgroup. There, such problems are discussed often, I
suspect.

hth,
 
Hey Skip,

Go to the basics, is that piece of hardware on the HCL list? Do you know if
its compatible with XP? If it is dont let windows install the drivers for you
get the drivers from the manufacture website. Good luck!
 
Well, I would imagine that since the same Linksys card is being used on the
other two computers in my house with XP that it is approved for use with XP.
As for loading any drivers, as I said in the beginning, you can't boot XP to
get to the point where it would ask you to load a driver.

It is a Linksys LNE100TX.

Thanks for the original response,
Skip
 
Just a thought, in Device Manager, View hidden devices, see if a further
instance of the old nic is there.
I assumed you tried a different slot
 
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