please help me!

[they call mr big]

i have a 10/100 pci network card in a Abit bf6 motherboard and had to move it to another slot and now it's not working, put it back where it was from and stil not working. i know it's the not the card, tested it on another machine. everything is setup up right,ip address etc everything like that. no conflicts are reported, but I did install a geforce 2 mx, thats the reason why i moved it. reinstalled winows 2000 and it worked fine, then turned on my computer the next day and it wasn't working, please help!!!

 

[Chatterjee]

If you have another slot open, try it in that one. They may be sharing the same IRQ.

-S

 

[they call mr big]

thanks for that, will try. it was sharing with my graphic card and in the other slot it was sharing with one of the com ports.

 

[BoNeZ]

I've had the same problem time and time again, and with no more slots to move cards to, that no longer became an option. The only way I found to deal with this was to disable ACPI in the BIOS, but before you even do that you need to load new drivers for your WIn2K system (unless you feel like just starting from scratch). The way that you do this is through the device manager, you go to computer which probably now says something like ACPI compliant computer. Go into properties, and do update driver and tell it to list all drivers, and choose MPS PC, or something to that affect. When you reboot, disable ACPI in the BIOS and everything should work. You may need to reconfigure some cards, settings, etc, as 2K will think they're new. The only downside (if you want to call it that) is that when you tell your computer to shutdown, it will no longer power off, but come to the "it's ok to turn off your computer screen"

Hope this helps

BoNeZ

 

[flippinfleck]

If you have more than one serial port, or have a printer on a dif machine, try disabling the parallel port/serial port in bios. That might free up some IRQ's.