After I installed my Linksys Ethernet card my PC....

[Rcoops]

After I installed my Linksys Ethernet card my friends PC hangs for about 1-2 minutes during bootup. Normal boot, then Win 98 screen and then it goes to a black curser blinking in the top left for 1-2 minutes until finally the wallpaper??

Any ideas??

System:
Win 98 SE
ASUS A7A266
1.2 266 T-bird CPU
256MB PC2100 DDR

I believe the network card is installed in PCI slot 4.

Any help will be great.

If you have questions, let me know

Rcoops

 

[Shudder]

Where'd you get the drivers.. from the floppy or online?

If you got them from online, make sure you get the right version. LInksys makes different versions of the same card and each have different drivers. The wrong ones will lock up your PC. I know from experience

Edited to say is your friend connected to a network yet? Because when the PC boots up it is looking for an IP address.. if it's not on a network it will not find one, but keep looking anyway.

Go into the tcp/Ip properties and assign an IP address for the card manually instead of having it do DHCP on bootup.

 

[Rcoops]

Yes Thx. I did check that. I have Version 4 and have the version 4 driver installed.

Any other ideas? Pc never locked it just hangs 1-2 minutes before the wallpaper screen. When I take the Network card out the system boots up very fast.

Rcoops

 

[Shudder]

Maybe I edited my message too late for you to read it. DEFINITELY sounds like it's trying to find the IP address.

You using the card for a LAN or LAN gaming or something? You don't sound like it's for a primary internet connection.

 

[hungrypete]

disable DHCP like Shudder suggested

 

[Rcoops]

He will be using the card for his Cable modem connection which gets hooked up tomorrow. I thought maybe it was the card looking for an IP address, but when I installed the same card in two of my other friends PCs they did not hang.

How do I disable DHCP Bios, or TCP setting through Network?

Thanks for the help

 

[Shudder]

I can't remember off the top of my head, but on my NT machine at work it looks like what I remember it as.

Go to network under the control panel. Protocols tab, then click on the TCP/IP setting and do properties.

There's radio buttons there, one's to obtain the IP from DHCP and the other is where you can set it manually. For now until he gets his cable modem it'll help with the bootup.

 

[Rcoops]

Thanks for the help again. Take care all

 

[NeMeSi]

You'll run into this problem with Win9X boxes. What it does, on bootup it quieres for a network connnection. That's why it takes longer. Usually, if you hook up a network cable to each card, it won't take as long.