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Won't Detect 2nd NIC

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Name: David
Date: July 13, 2001 at 14:29:27 Pacific
Subject: Won't Detect 2nd NIC
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I am running an old 486 machine with windows server 4.0 SP1. Windows automatically recognized my first Network card during setup. But didn't recognize my second card. So I downloaded the driver off the web site and tried installing it that way and it still didn't recognize it. I tried using the appropriate driver from the list avaible. It didn't recognize the card.

Before I installed server 4.0 I had windows 95(First edition) and it recognized both cards no problem.

Both cards are plug&play compatible. and windows has drivers for both but the second one won't work.

(To make sure it worked I hooked it up in my other computer and it worked fine.)

Any Ideas? I am really stuck.

thanks David.


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Response Number 1
Name: Chase
Date: July 13, 2001 at 16:30:49 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Sound like you did it right.

What kind of NIC's are they? Sometimes NT has trouble when it tries to run two 3Com NIC's, but a 3Com and any other will work fine.

Cheers!
Chase


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Response Number 2
Name: David
Date: July 13, 2001 at 20:01:42 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Originally it was two 3coms, the exact same model. So I finally gave up and I swapped network cards. So now there is a Realtek and a 3com.

I have reinstalled windows since I changed cards.


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Response Number 3
Name: Dr. Zhivago
Date: July 13, 2001 at 22:45:44 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Bindings?

See:

http://www.sshelpdesk.com/Labs/NTII_LABS/Lab-NTII-04A.htm


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