Turbine
04-20-2001, 12:31 AM
During a clean install of WinMe, after installing my mainboard drivers, I attempted to install the driver for my Addtron ethernet NIC card and I noticed Windows reboot. In the device manager I saw an exclamation point beside it with the message "Windows stopped responding while attempting to start this device, and therefore will never attempt to start this device again." Windows apparently recognized the card correctly and was able to load the correct driver, but some sort of conflict exists.
I've tried putting the NIC card in different slots. I've taken out all the other cards, except for my Voodoo3. I've replaced the NIC card with a similar one (different brand). Still the same behavior.
This NIC card worked fine in the same machine under Win95. I can't understand what's going on. Any help would be appreciated.
My system:
FIC VA-503+ mainboard
AMD K6-2 350
64M RAM
Mitsumi CD-ROM
2 floppy drives
Voodoo3
(I've checked the MS knowledge base and the motherboard site and not found any helpful info)
Let me add that the device manager is pointing to another possible conflict: There is an exclamation point beside "VIA TECH 82C586B (PIPC) PCI to ISA Bridge" with the message "Windows could not load the driver for this device because the computer is reporting two ISAPNP.VXD bus types"
Marc
I've tried putting the NIC card in different slots. I've taken out all the other cards, except for my Voodoo3. I've replaced the NIC card with a similar one (different brand). Still the same behavior.
This NIC card worked fine in the same machine under Win95. I can't understand what's going on. Any help would be appreciated.
My system:
FIC VA-503+ mainboard
AMD K6-2 350
64M RAM
Mitsumi CD-ROM
2 floppy drives
Voodoo3
(I've checked the MS knowledge base and the motherboard site and not found any helpful info)
Let me add that the device manager is pointing to another possible conflict: There is an exclamation point beside "VIA TECH 82C586B (PIPC) PCI to ISA Bridge" with the message "Windows could not load the driver for this device because the computer is reporting two ISAPNP.VXD bus types"
Marc