On 28 Feb 2006 at 23:47, Barbara Kaye wrote:
> We are using old computers (about 1998 vintage) at work with no nic cards.
> We wanted to connect to a dsl modem. I purchased and installed a US Robotics
> 10/100 Mbps nic card. Computer was fine before installation.
To add. Was doing exactly this for a friend only a few days ago.
Very vintage PC. Yes, I encourge re-cycling and most of them do not
need anything faster than 400Mhz PII (speed kills and corrupts) :-))
Since PCI cards will grab some IRQ automatically, you may want to
check all the functions. This PC assigned all PCI devices to one IRQ
and things were acting strange.
BIOS was accesible, so I spread the wealth a bit and all was fine.
Some mobos will allow each PCI slot to be assigned its unique IRQ,
others seem to do it in groups of two.
Rich
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