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by employee #101256

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I'm having a problem installing my NIC card.(all documentation is in Japanese!) The phycical install is no problem but when i install the drivers the computer tells "no network card present" is this a irq problem?
Card: corega pci ethernet cardOs: Windows Nt 4.0 Japanese

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by beecee

You need to give more information.
OS installed, any previous nic's that may have been removed incorrectly (not removed using hardware removal in OS), patch info, WinNT Event id's if available.
Also, you may want to make sure that you have the right 'things' enabled in your bios. I say 'things' because your post is too vague for me to speculate.

by ebob

I have always found Device Manager (Control Panel --> System, I believe in NT4) to be helpful in identifying this.

Also, with NT4, on some systems, I found I had to:
1 - load NT4 with no NIC in the box
2 - shutdown and physically install card
3 - reboot and shutdown (P&P seemed useless, but this clears up any memory cache etc.)
4 - reboot and manually install drivers

At that point the NIC was generally picked up by the manual install. If not, then it was back to Device Manager to lookfor device (e.g., IRQ) conflicts.

Sometimes you can manage IRQ conflicts by changing the settings, and sometimes, it needed the box opened up and the PCI cards shuffled around.

Good Luck

by beecee

NT 4 and device manager... that just doesn't happen. The have *devices* but thats about it, NT 4 and device management is a headache!

adriana

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