Guest Davej Posted February 17, 2008 Posted February 17, 2008 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 Posted February 17, 2008 Posted February 17, 2008 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 Posted February 18, 2008 Posted February 18, 2008 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 Posted February 18, 2008 Posted February 18, 2008 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 Posted February 18, 2008 Posted February 18, 2008 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.
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