> Every time I boot up lately  on my ibm machine I get the new
> hardware found
> prompt which is trying to  install a network card which is present within
> the computer.  I really don't want to do this right now so is
> there some way
> I can prevent this creen from coming up for now.

     Hmm, not really, Windows will keep on trying to install it as long as
the card is there and not installed. How about installing it but then
disabling it in your current hardware profile? I have gotten this method to
work when trying to install a second Video Card. TTYL

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