Benjamin,

Have you tried booting to a "True" DOS prompt (I'm talking the old 6.22 or
6.20 here) and running the diag program?  I "think" it will work with a
Windows 95 or 98 prompt only boot, but I would boot from a floppy and not
the hard drive.  Then run the diag program and make sure the card is set to
PnP.  If not, set it that way and reboot.  If it is set to PnP, I would say
you might have a bad card.

Good luck!

Kyle

From: "Benjamin Hawes" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 11:28 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] 3Com Fast Ethernet problems


> I recently installed a 3Com Etherlink 3c905c-tx-m Fast Ethernet PCI card
on my
> DFI K6BV3+ board (it has an AMD k6-III 400 chip and 64 megs). It is
recognized
> in the Device configuration screen, but I can't get any logon - it won't
> display the other computers in the network (I am connecting into a college
> ethernet system from my apartment). Someone from the college came and
tested
> the wires and the jack, and both are good. I spent 11/2 hours on the line
with
> a guy @ 3Com, but we couldn't make any headway. He suggested I go through
a
> complete uninstall/reinstall of all of the Dial-Up networking files via
> Microsoft's instructions from their knowledgebase. So I uninstalled the
> driver,  physically removed the card, and followed the instructions. At
the
> end of it all, it's exactly the same -- no logon. The diagnostic tool that
> came with the card says that the network connection works, but when I run
the
> diagnostic tool on the NIC itself, it crashes thae computer and restarts
it.
> Any ideas?

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