I’m dealing with a Win 2k Pro box that won’t accept (recognize) the new NIC or let me load its drivers. By all appearances, it’s an IRQ conflict because the Hardware (Device) Manager tells me the Ethernet controller uses IRQ 9, but the IRQ list shows a few other things sharing the same. I’d like to try moving it to IRQ 11, which is unused, but I can’t remember how to force the change! Help!
My previous attempts at loading NIC’s have failed, but the system info indicates the OS still ‘remembers’ the previous attempts, and I’d like to CLEAN OUT the OS’s acknowledgment of any NIC but the current one. It’s as if the registry sees all this stuff there that’s not.
The new NIC is a Kingston KNE110TX, and I got hold of the most current drivers from their website. Whenever I uninstall the Ethernet controller from the Add/Remove Hardware listing, and then try to add the Kingston, it keeps telling me the new NIC is a “LNE100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter Version 1.0”, which is the previous attempted NIC (a Linksys product).
So…how can I clean up the IRQ 9 setting, so only one (maybe two) things are on it, and move the NIC to IRQ 11? I’m assuming, of course, that it will then work- right now the NIC doesn’t even light up when I plug acable into it (it did for the first few moments it was in, but then went blank).
Thanks, Patriccio in Seattle