WIN 98 Networking Problem

[ragtop]

This weekend I had to swap out a failing MB in the kid's computer. I'm trying to get it going without doing a reformat/reinstall (so I don't have to reinstall about a million games that he plays)

The MB swap went from an old KT133A based board to a Leadtek Winfast 7350 KDA (SIS 735 based) board.

I have everything working properly, except for networking. I removed all the old stuff from device manager in safe mode, then installed the drivers for the onboard Realtek NIC chip. I couldn't get it to work, and had problems with hanging on shutdown, hanging on startup, etc. I then disabled the onboard NIC and went back to my trusty Intel PCI NIC - but had the same problem. (The Intel NIC worked fine with the old MB, and the computer works fine as long as the network stuff is disabled or not installed)

I tried uninstalling/reinstalling the Windows network protocols, but that didn't help either.

Any other suggestions I can try to get this thing working before I give up and reformat??

[Bill in SD, CA]

Have you checked for updated drivers?

Realtek NIC

Bill

[ragtop]

Seems like I got it fixed - although I'm still not sure what the problem was. I unplugged/replugged the cables, and uninstalled/reinstalled the drivers and network protocols one more time and all of a sudden it works

Oh well - hopefully it stays working. (I can't stand the whining when the kid's computer isn't working and he can't play any games)

[Gouki]

It's amazing how many times that seems to fix the problem. Just checking the connections or unplug and plug it back in.

I was having video problems earlier...had all the symptoms of a ram chip on my video card going bad. Someone suggested that I just pull out the card and reseat it. So I did...and the problem was gone!

Can you explain it? No...but it seems to work sometimes. lol.