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Safe Mode bootup after installing NIC
Hello tech gurus:
I just reinstalled all the SW in my Win98se PC from scratch and had it working perfectly. Then I installed a new Belkin NIC in a PCI slot. Immediately after doing this, I could no longer boot properly. The PC would only let me boot into Safe Mode. I tried the following, but they did not work: Moving the NIC to different PCI slots and rebooting. Trying another NIC of the same model to ensure it was not defective. Reinstalling the NIC driver. When I removed the NIC, once again I was able to boot properly. But I really need this NIC because I want to start using DSL. The PC is rather old but, on the other hand, I'm using an old OS, so I don't think I'm overloading its resources. Here are its specs: Pentium 200Mhz processor. 256MB of RAM. 40GB Hard Drive. Please let me know what I can do to resolve this problem. Thank You. Patrick |
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Franc:
By "properly" I mean in Normal mode; i.e., no DOS-like screen asking me to choose from a range of several boot-up options. And only one of those options; namely, Safe Mode, allowed me to boot at all. If I chose Normal from the list, it wouldn't boot normally, but would restart again and go back to the same list of bootup options. No, I was not aware of that non-existent DHCP server issue you mentioned. But, now that you mention it, there were several occasions when, instead of going into Safe mode, the PC would just show a blank screen for about 2 minutes before finally completing the boot up. This seems to describe what you just wrote about. If that is indeed the cause of the hanging and the "Safe mode" problem, can you tell me how to fix it? I don't recall having configured anything at all for the NIC, so perhaps it configured itself incorrectly. The NIC is a brand new Belkin F5D5000. Please let me know. Thanks |
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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? |
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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+ http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm wrote in message oups.com... 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? |
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To answer your first question:
When I am brought to the screen that has the list of bootup options, "Safe Mode" is selected by default, so that if I don't choose another option, it goes to Safe Mode automatically. Thus, according to you, I "have 2 issues". What are these 2 issues? Can you please clarify the statement "[The NIC] would normally obtain this address from the DHCP server within your DSL modem ." I don't know what a DHCP server is. If this is "normally" what is supposed to happen, does that mean my DSL modem is somehow defective or does it simply mean it just doesn't work that way with the particular modem I have? Also, what do you mean by "You can avert this behaviour until you get your modem"? I do have my modem. It was connected to the NIC at the time that I booted up. It is a Westell, model 6100. Thanks for your detailed response. Patrick |
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Glee:
The NIC was not using an IRQ that was in use by another device. Device manager said, "No conflicts" regarding the NIC. |
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