Replacing A Network Card

Can you replace the new card with the old card? Sometimes the ip address gets associated with the hardware addresss of the network card. Therefore, the network has the hardware address of the card associated with the particular network card on a particular pc. Before you removed the old card, did you remove the device from the operating system? You need to get the device out of the system and then replace it with a new card. I would suggest to get the old card back in and remove it from thesystem, then put the new card.

Hope this helps.

In Windows 2000, when you want to remove a
network card, the first step is to uninstall
the card's drivers before replacing the
physical card. Simply right-click on
"My Computer," then select MANAGE, then
from the Computer Management applet, select
DEVICE MANAGER, then open Network Adapters.
Finally, right-click on the adapter and select "Uninstall." You can now remove the card. But know that if you restart your system before removing the old card, it will be re-detected and you'll needto go through the same process again.