KG7-Raid conflict with Netgear FA311 NIC???

wshtb

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After installed Netgear FA311 NIC, display won't light up, and the system *halt* (no disk activety). Motherboard is Abit KG7-Raid, also installed GeForce2 MX200 video card, soundblaster Audigy sound card and an unknown soft modem.

I have tried to install the NIC into different PCI slots but had no luck. Does anyone have similiar problem or known the solution?

BTW,
 

zzzz

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That NIC is not compatible with the AMD 761 chipset.

From ASUS faq:
Question :

When a Netgear FA311 NIC (Network Interface Card) is used in A7M266, it causes the system unable to POST from a warm reboot. (like save and exit from BIOS or restart from Windows)

Answer :

AMD761 chipset will use some PCI signals to do power on strapping. So any PCI device must be floating with these PCI signals when PCIRST# ramps up. But we found the Netgear card is not floating with C/BE0# and other signals. This will cause hardware strapping error and is the root cause why the system can not boot.
 

wshtb

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Thanks guys!!! As campus network is almost done, I cann't wait to enter the Broadband world...:)