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by betrindade

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Hi,
I am using a Dell Inspiron 7000, with Dual Boot. NT Server 4, SP6 in C and Win2K in D. My Network Card (Dell/3com, 3CCFE575BT-D) works perfect with Win2K, P&P. With NT4, no way, I've tried all the SW by Dell, even with SP 4&5, no go. With SP6, the lights are on, showing net activity, but it can't get an IPadress or hit a domain.
Help!!! I need to have NT running to install a specific SW on the worknet.

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by dc1

Download the Softex PC Card services for the Inspiron 7000 and that should solve your problems.

by scot.hatt

1) Well, the first place I would look is the Event Log. There should be some indication as to the problem. The Workstation service is notorious for this kind of symptom.

If this does not show any failures. . .

2) Double check the "NT" driver and correlate it to the NIC and be 100% sure that the models match (visual check of the NIC). I have had "close" drivers do this very thing. This will also cause the failure of services (noted in Event Log.)

Service Pack version is probably not the issue.

by betrindade

Hi,
Thanks for your answer, but it didn' work.
Event viewer didn't provide me any useful info and the visual check was passed.
But I solved it now (with another answer)

by timber

I have an Inspiron 7500 and had the same issue with NT 4. First off it will work but it takes a lot playing with to get it to work properly. Dell is no help whatsoever on this issue (at least for me). What appeared to be my solution was run the setup program for the NIC to verify your IRQ and IO addresses, install NT without the NIC, apply SP 6 ( I couldn't make it work with 4, never tried 5), Install the proper video drivers (Don't ask I tried sticking the NIC in after the SP but it locked up at the login screen), reboot with the NIC, go into network Neighborhood and install the NIC making sure you use athe same IRQ and IO from step 1.
It took me 2 days to get a network card working the first time I tried installing NT on my laptop but after that I got the process down to normal. If that doesn't work e-mail me I'll try to remember more details but for the most part I believe that was my solution.

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