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Not recognizing NIC on boot

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by ahroo

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Our shop uses a network boot disk to start the install of NT on our production machines. The disk and the server are both working as witnessed by building another machine at the same time. The machine in question will boot with this disk but when itcomes time to initialize the NIC, it refuses. The error states that the NIC is either not responding or not present. The NIC works fine in other machines. As well, the machine in question seemed to not like a soundcard that was installed and refusedto boot until the sound card was removed. All cards are going into PCI slots on a daughter board. This is an IBM 300 GL model desktop. Any ideas would be helpful. I have gone over and over basic troubleshooting, removed and reinstalled all cards oneat a time, etc etc. Thank you.

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by stillatit

I would look at the power supply. I have seen a flakey power supply make all kinds of other boards act flakey.

Good luck.

by hsilva3

Have you tried checking the card in the machine in a different PCI slot? Have you tried to reset configuration data in CMOS? It might be conflicting with another PCI device for IRQ so you should check there. Have you tried using a different brand of NIC, some motherboards do not work well with certain types of NIC chipsets.

Hope this helps you out with your situation,

by cdobbin

you know the card works in other machines, you know the disks work, I take it you have more that one of these 300GL's, I would try taking the daughter board out of another pc and see what that gives you, could turn out to be a bad MOBO, you say you also had problems with a sound card installed in that pc, given that I would not suspect the nic, look to the pc.
Hope this helps.

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