Netgear FA310TX does NOT work in Windows 2000!! GRRR!......

[Billy Blanks]

Yep, the FA310TX causes BSOD's (oh but they look so cool now in win2k ) and it never "accepts" the drivers I give it-- I tried windows drivers that were on the HD "c:\winnt" and the drivers at netgear's site-- however the latest drivers don't even mention it being win2k compatible. What to do? The card causes crashes when it is just in there! What other relatively cheap-- less than $30 lan cards do you recommend that work in win2k? And is there anything I can do about the netgear? Anyone else have similar probs?


Dual 700E's (gonna oc once things are installed
256MB Mushkin High perf CAS 2,2,2
MSI 694D-pro
IBM ata 100 30GB 75GXP 7200 RPM
Guillemot Hercules 3d Prophet II MX

 

[MasterMind]

Same card but I didnt have to load the drivers. SP1 installed too, maybe that makes a difference.

 

[AMB]

I think NFS4 has a FA310TX and Win 2K.

Are you using the latest drivers: Drivers

 

[Fandu]

I'm running a FA310-TX in Win2K Pro (release) no problems at all. It detected the card and installed it's own drivers for it. It worked fine, but I still updated the drivers to the ones off the website with no problems whatsoever. Are you sure it's not an IRQ conflict or something? try moving the card to a different slot and then running the diagnostics on the driver disk. e-mail me if you need some help

 

[The Stigenator]

no problems on my side.. plug n play baby.

I might suggest moving it or getting a new card, maybe the cards busted.

 

[imhotepmp]

i also use it in win2k with no probs. Its plug n play as the good guy says

maybe defective?

imhotepmp

 

[OS]

I also have the same card and it works fine. I used the default drivers.

 

[pcmark]

No problems here

 

[dc]

fa310tx in win2000 here, no problems. win2000 installed drivers for me.
oh yeah, and does anyone know if the fa310tx works in freebsd?

dc

 

[sd]

Anyone know the difference between the FA310TX and the FA311TX? Is the 311 newer?

 

[JimMc]

No problems with the Netgear here.

 

[AMB]

sd,

"Netgear's tech support told me that the FA311, which uses one National Semiconductor chip, is faster (FA312, I'm assuming, is the same thing only with WOL) than the 310, which uses two Digital Equipment Corp chips. Drivers for Windows are good, but if you want to use more esoteric o/s's, such as BeOS or any of the BSD's, the 310 is more widely supported. Also, if you use Linux and don't want the hassle of installing the drivers yourself (see my thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=36&threadid=218705 ) nearly every Linux distro out there supports the tulip driver right out of the box. I don't have benchmarks or enough net time to tell you numerical differences, but I doubt you would feel the speed difference between the two. All in all, if you want wider support, go with the 310. If you want a newer, faster card, go with the 311. If you need WOL, go with the 312"

 

[teknoid]

Sounds like it might be a bogus card. I have a whole office full of FA310TX's and W2K and not a minutes trouble with any of them. They all installed with the W2K default drivers and I haven't bothered to update them. If it aint broke... don't fix it...

 

[sd]

AMB, thanks a lot. I emailed Netgear Thursday about that info but didn't hear back yet. Sounds like I'm fine with the 311, runnnin only winblows.

 

[Raincity]

AMD Netgear fa311 is fully suporrted by Win2k,
Linux and Beos 5.0 I have this nic running fine in those four operating systems.

Rain

 

[Fandu]

Really sounds like IRQ problems to me!
BTW - What mobo you running those dual 700E's in?

 

[R0b0tN1k]

<< and does anyone know if the fa310tx works in freebsd? >>



The FA310TX is compatible with the Tulip chipset, so Linux, and I would assume FreeBSD will work with it.

 

[Conroy9]

i guess this doesn't add much to what everybody's said already, but i'm running 2 fa310tx's in my win2k pro machine WITHOUT sp1 installed

and everything works fine

 

[aolj]

I just installed Win2000 today and I am using this NIC. I installed it with the drivers that came with Win2000. All seems to be working. It's listed in Device Manager as Netgear FA310TX Fast Ethernet Adapter(NGRPCI). I didn't see that word(in brackets) in Win98, but it sure is working well. Why not try to install your driver from the Win2000 disc.

 

[randomlinh]

Check your irqs. Is the card being shared w/ a hunderd other things on one IRQ (because of ACPI)? Well, that's what happened to me, and the card *looked* like it was installed right, but when it came to file transfer.. LOCK CITY.

 

[Billy Blanks]

I fixed it guys, thanks. I just moved it over to another PCI slot. I was trying to stay away from the inside of my computer b/c I cut myself really badly on the case and bled all over the motherboard , but I did so anyway. Works fine now. Only problem is that I have tried several versions of the VIA 4 in 1 drivers but they all crash win2k. They install fine, but when I restart, the splash screen gets all distorted and blocky and hangs there forever. I just end up formatting and reinstalling. Right now I am not running any 4 in 1's.
I have the MSI 694-D pro