I just installed an Epox 8KTA+/Duron 700 and everything seemed to get installed ok (well, after 10 or 15 boots anyway🙂) I could not get my DSL internet connection to work though. I spent 45 minutes on the phone with ISP tech support but couldn't solve the problem. He could ping my modem but something was wrong between the modem and the ISA NIC.
As a last resort I fired up SANDRA and it said that my AGP, PCI, and ISA buses were too high: 100, 50, and 14. I checked the bios and the CPU Host/PCI/Spread Spec. setting was set at Default. I lowered it to the 95/31 setting and BINGO! My net connection worked again. I changed it back to default and it still works.
Somehow it seems like the change in bus speed gave the NIC a kick in the pants to start working again. But what are those Sandra measurements about? They couldn't be right could they?
As a last resort I fired up SANDRA and it said that my AGP, PCI, and ISA buses were too high: 100, 50, and 14. I checked the bios and the CPU Host/PCI/Spread Spec. setting was set at Default. I lowered it to the 95/31 setting and BINGO! My net connection worked again. I changed it back to default and it still works.
Somehow it seems like the change in bus speed gave the NIC a kick in the pants to start working again. But what are those Sandra measurements about? They couldn't be right could they?
