In Safe Mode, open Device Manager and see if you can change the IRQ settings for the
NIC to an interrupt not in use.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
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I did actually try a different NIC. In fact, the first one I tried was
from Linksys, but I had the same problem with it.
Can you think of any other places to get an older NIC other than from
picking through the garbage?