epox 8k7a network card install?

[Busie23]

I just put together a new system and can't get this card to install for the life of me? I'm running win98se, xp1600, , Epox 8k7a MB, and have no other cards installed as of yet. I did the usual "search for drivers" screen and pointed windows to the CD that came with the card. That didn't do it, so I downloaded the driver from the website and put it on floppy and that didn't do it? Its getting picked up by windows, but no matter how I try to install the driver it won't work. I did get a funny error message once that said to change the pci bus to master so it would detect the card but that doesn't make any sense to me since its already getting detected, and it only popped up once out of all the times I tried to install it. I also looked in the bios menu for something related to the networlk cards but found nothing? Help!

Thanks,

Sean

 

[DaiShan]

Many times when you simply point it to the cd where the drivers are located, it will not find the correct driver, you have to point it to the directory on the cd where the driver for your particular OS resides. There may be a sub-folder named win98 then one named drivers, explore on the cd using the browse button until it finds a driver and it comes up in the navigation box, then select ok, if that doesn't work, the driver that you downloaded: what was the extension? Was it .zip? .exe? or what? Normally there are a few drivers that are used to make the device work properly, so manufacturers either zip them up, or put them in an installer, in the case of the .zip, you need to extract it to a directory on your hard drive then point the windows hardware manager to that directory when it asks for a driver, or in the case of the .exe simply run the installer then restart your computer, you should be good to go.