Hi i have 2 ethernet cards in my 1st computer a Realtek 10/100mbps and a Netgear 10/100mbps and one card (linksys 10/100) in my second computer. I have 512k cable internet. On installing my second ethernet card (netgear)into my first computer i rebooted, now every time ME is loading up i get the error: "ERROR HAS OCCURED, FILE NAME:VNETBIOS(01) + 000007C7 ERROR: 0E : 0028 : C0060D97", this error can be bypassed by hitting enter a few times and ME continues to load correctly. On my network places, it will not detect my second comp, and yes the cross over cable is connected between each comp (cat5 utp cable). None of the LED's are on on the ethernet cards that i want to network. Helppppp! My First Comp uses: WinME, P4 1700mhz, 512mb rdram, Soundblaster 5.1 card, gforce3 64mb ram, 60gig hdd. My second comp uses: Win98 2nd edition, 400mhz celeron, 192mb ram, Voodoo 3 3000,

Yes i forgot to mention ive tried other ethernet cards and i still get the same error message, i have tried pinging each computer from the run menu but it just says unknown or cannot find computer etc.

Pete, What have you set your 2nd NIC's IP address to? Here is the basic setup, hope it helps and is not to basic! I can't answer your ME problem though, Sorry! Computer 1 (Connecting to Internet) NIC 1-Use DHCP to connect to your ISP (Cable) NIC 2-Use 192.168.x.x(Class C reserved for internal networks) You will have to manually set the Subnet mask and default Gateway. Not sure if you can dynamically set them on the second card. This is the card that will connect to the 2nd computer. Computer 2 (Local Network) NIC-Setup with the same address as above, only increment the 4th octet by one. I.e. 192.168.1.1 above and 192.168.1.2 for this one. Your subnet mask should be 255.255.255.0 and your default gateway will be whatever address you used for NIC 2 on computer 1. Again. i.e. 192.168.1.1. Connect these computers with your cross-over cable and you should be set. Now both of those computers are on the same subnet and should be able to see each other. This may also take care of the ME problem but not sure. If you are wanting to share your connection, it would be a little easier to buy yourself a cable router (D-link, Linksys, etc.). Then this router would accept the DHCP from the cable provider and you could set it to serve its own IP addresses by DHCP to both of your computers. Then you could connect as many computers as you have connections on the router you buy or add a switch to have even more expandability. Same as above, only you would only need one NIC in each computer. Hope this helps! Roger

Thx for the info roger. But how do i set the subnet mask manually? For comp 1 it automatically choosed itself to be: 255.255.255.0 is that ok to be the same subnet mask as the second comp?

Hi, i done as you said Roger but still it wont find my second comp :-( when i search on entire network it says: unable to browse network etc and the blue screen error comes. Im gonna give up soon, windows sux hehe. Thx.

you said 'none of the LEDs are on on the NIC cards' then you should check the cable. the LEDs on both NIC cards have to be on to indicate the proper connection between the cards.

Pete, Having the same subnet mask is not a problem. Can you ping both computer? Lets start a layer 1, then go up from there. Do you have another crossover cable you could try?