Recently, we had two NIC Cards failing at the same locations on two
different systems running Windows 98 SE. NICs are ALN 320 10/100 Fast
Ethernet Cards ( Acer / Aopen ) . The NICs  picked up IP addresses from
a  fictitious range and as a result displayed  all sorts of errors on
boot up, crashing the operating system. I did manage to reinstall the
cards after removing the drivers from safe mode. I could ping to the
localhost and the IP it acquired but could not see the network.  The
only solution available to me was to replace the NICs. I tried testing
these NICs at a different site ( with static IP ) but it failed to work.

The site has other systems with similar NICs and they seem to be having
no issues. Has anyone faced similar issues of NICs acquiring IP
addresses different from the scope specified in the DHCP servers?

Thanks and Regards,

Ram Swaminathan

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