network card install and vip.386

[Guest Davej]

Tried to install a network card with no success. Seems similar to the

following (see link below) but I don't understand how to see the

"illegal operation" messages that are mentioned. All I know is that

the installation chokes right after the vip.386 popup is clicked on

and then after the reboot the device manager says the network card has

been disabled because it caused a problem at startup. Network card

hardware is known good. I don't know if the vip.386 file is relevant

to this problem or not. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

http://help.lockergnome.com/windows2/Installing-Ethenet-card-fails-causing-VXD-tbl-loss-connectiv-ftopict482802.html

[Guest philo]

Re: network card install and vip.386

 

 

"Davej" <galt_57@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:d042780a-e048-4bdb-92de-be83f2095d5d@64g2000hsw.googlegroups.com...

> Tried to install a network card with no success. Seems similar to the

> following (see link below) but I don't understand how to see the

> "illegal operation" messages that are mentioned. All I know is that

> the installation chokes right after the vip.386 popup is clicked on

> and then after the reboot the device manager says the network card has

> been disabled because it caused a problem at startup. Network card

> hardware is known good. I don't know if the vip.386 file is relevant

> to this problem or not. Any ideas? Thanks.

>

>

http://help.lockergnome.com/windows2/Installing-Ethenet-card-fails-causing-VXD-tbl-loss-connectiv-ftopict482802.html

>

 

 

Try another PCI slot

[Guest Davej]

Re: network card install and vip.386

 

On Feb 17, 5:43 pm, "philo" <ph...@privacy.net> wrote:

> "Davej" <galt...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> > Tried to install a network card with no success. Seems similar to

> > following (see link below) but I don't understand how to see the

> > "illegal operation" messages that are mentioned. All I know is that

> > the installation chokes right after the vip.386 popup is clicked on

> > and then after the reboot the device manager says the network card

> > has been disabled because it caused a problem at startup. Network

> > card hardware is known good. I don't know if the vip.386 file is

> > relevant to this problem or not. Any ideas? Thanks.

>

> http://help.lockergnome.com/windows2/Installing-Ethenet-card-fails-ca...

>

>

> Try another PCI slot

 

No, same result in either slot. The vip.386 file must be irrelevant,

but some sort of conflict is preventing the network card from being

initialized. Is there a standard debugging process for this sort of

problem? I have the same network card and driver working on a similar

computer.

[Guest philo]

Re: network card install and vip.386

 

 

"Davej" <galt_57@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:eac4e8d8-ae82-4eb1-a288-0dcac7b9054f@e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com...

> On Feb 17, 5:43 pm, "philo" <ph...@privacy.net> wrote:

> > "Davej" <galt...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> > > Tried to install a network card with no success. Seems similar to

> > > following (see link below) but I don't understand how to see the

> > > "illegal operation" messages that are mentioned. All I know is that

> > > the installation chokes right after the vip.386 popup is clicked on

> > > and then after the reboot the device manager says the network card

> > > has been disabled because it caused a problem at startup. Network

> > > card hardware is known good. I don't know if the vip.386 file is

> > > relevant to this problem or not. Any ideas? Thanks.

> >

> > http://help.lockergnome.com/windows2/Installing-Ethenet-card-fails-ca...

> >

> >

> > Try another PCI slot

>

> No, same result in either slot. The vip.386 file must be irrelevant,

> but some sort of conflict is preventing the network card from being

> initialized. Is there a standard debugging process for this sort of

> problem? I have the same network card and driver working on a similar

> computer.

 

 

You can try booting to safe mode

then deleting all instances of "network adaptor"

 

then reboot and reinstall.

 

If that does not work try a different model of net card.

 

Occasionally I'll have a know, working card just plain not work in a

particular machine

[Guest lb]

Re: network card install and vip.386

 

 

 

Davej wrote:

> Tried to install a network card with no success. Seems similar to the

> following (see link below) but I don't understand how to see the

> "illegal operation" messages that are mentioned. All I know is that

> the installation chokes right after the vip.386 popup is clicked on

> and then after the reboot the device manager says the network card has

> been disabled because it caused a problem at startup. Network card

> hardware is known good. I don't know if the vip.386 file is relevant

> to this problem or not. Any ideas? Thanks.

>

> http://help.lockergnome.com/windows2/Installing-Ethenet-card-fails-causing-VXD-tbl-loss-connectiv-ftopict482802.html

 

Does your computer already have an onboard NIC and if so, did you

disable it in BIOS. My version of vip.386 is 4.10.2226 and is newer

than what came with 989SE. I would remove the card, go to safe mode

and delete all network adapters other than dialup. I would then boot

into normal mode and install the cards drivers. Then shut down and

install the card and hopefully when the machine boots up it will find

the card and drivers. My Linksys card runs fine even though it was

not supposed to have 98 drivers.