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Target · February 1st, 2003, 07:43 PM

Go into your bios and force the ESCD to reset, or enable it, whatever your bios setting specifies. Then reboot. It will reset to disabled after a successful boot.

Resetting the ESCD tells your motherboard to pass IRQ information, etc. to the operating system. You might need to do this after removing the NIC card as the OS might still think the IRQ assignement for it is there.

If you decide to try the NIC card again, place it into a different PCI slot. Some PCI slots share resources with other slots or devices on your motherboard, and these devices might not share resources well.

February 1st, 2003, 07:43 PM	#2 (permalink)
Target Ultimate Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Bettendorf, Iowa Posts: 2,063	Go into your bios and force the ESCD to reset, or enable it, whatever your bios setting specifies. Then reboot. It will reset to disabled after a successful boot. Resetting the ESCD tells your motherboard to pass IRQ information, etc. to the operating system. You might need to do this after removing the NIC card as the OS might still think the IRQ assignement for it is there. If you decide to try the NIC card again, place it into a different PCI slot. Some PCI slots share resources with other slots or devices on your motherboard, and these devices might not share resources well. __________________ Through the NIC, on the cat5, off the gateway router, out the cable modem...….nothin' but net. Last edited by Target : February 1st, 2003 at 07:49 PM.