Netgear Card in an eMachine?

[thanser]

I just purchased an eMachine 600is (PIII 600) from Computer Geeks online. I bought it surplus, and it's a nice little machine for the price.

I've installed NT 4.0, and a Netgear FA311 card. I installed the drivers, too, when I installed NT.

But I can't for the life of me get that card to work on this machine. Emachines tech support indicates they don't support NT at all, so they can't help me.

The motherboard is a Cognac Micro ATX (ATX V1.2 form factor), and I've yet to find anything on them yet.

Any clues as to why this card won't work with this OS and board?

Thanks!

 

[NoShitMan]

emachine....hehe

 

[Workin']

I have an FA311 in one of my machines (Soyo 5EHM mobo running Win2k Advanced Server). It would only work in certain PCI slots. Did you try a different slot?

 

[thanser]

I've tried two of three. Maybe I should try the third?

I thought it might be something like this.

I can't see why this combination won't work.

Any other ideas?

 

[blstriker]

Go into the BIOS and make sure that plug and play in enabled. Sometimes, it is turned off to allow jumpered peripherals. Also, try all the different slots you can. Also check to see if there are any conflicts with IRQ's, memory addresses, in the NT control panel.

If this still doesn't work, try downloading the newest drivers from netgear.

 

[janetyan]

I used to have problem installing the netgear card
in my emachine. i had to replace it by linksys
NIC, that works great.

 

[thanser]

Well, there you go.

That might be it right there. There are some cards listed on the emachines web site that WORK, and Netgear isn't one of them.

They suggest 3Com and SMC, but not Netgear, and not Lynksys.

Are you running NT, by any chance?

This could definitely be the source of my problems.

Thanks!

 

[janetyan]

my linksys NIC work fine with both WIN 98 se and WIN 2k Pro.