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Re: Windows 95 keeps "losing" my network card

Posted on 2023-07-15, 12:44

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

You could try reinstalling W98 on another HDD to check if it wasn't just a corrupted file. Might be faster than pinpointing the real problem. I originally installed 98Lite because normal Windows 98 is slow on a 66 MHz 486 PC. It worked great; navigation was as fast or faster than Windows 95 on the …

Re: Windows 95 keeps "losing" my network card

Posted on 2023-07-15, 04:35

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Yah I don't think you've got PnP support in a 486 with 30 pin simm, so.... https://www.manualslib.com/manual/694324/3com-Etherlink-Iii-Isa.html?page=29#manual I already did that when I was running Windows 95, which I mentioned here . I'm running Windows 98 now on that PC and there are no more …

Re: Windows 95 keeps "losing" my network card

Posted on 2023-07-15, 01:11

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Nexxen wrote on 2023-07-15, 00:33: Have you set PnP OS in BIOS? AUto for IRQ? There is no setting for PnP anything in the BIOS. As for IRQ, if you're talking about the BIOS there's no setting for that either. If you're talking about Windows, then it set the IRQs automatically.

Re: Windows 95 keeps "losing" my network card

Posted on 2023-07-15, 00:05

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I don't have the vanishing NIC and/or sound card problem anymore because I booted to DOS, typed format c: and then installed Windows 98. When the installation was finished both the NIC and sound card were already in Device Manager and working perfectly (I didn't have to install drivers myself for …

Re: Windows 95 keeps "losing" my network card

Posted on 2023-07-13, 13:27

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Is this a 486, and does it have a pnp bios? What is the date on the bios? What are the settings in the bios? And the board model? 1. Yes. 2. I don't know. The sticker on the BIOS chip says "486DX ISA BIOS (C)1993 AB0251175," but on the BIOS screen it says (C)1992. It's an AMI (American Megatrends …

Re: Windows 95 keeps "losing" my network card

Posted on 2023-07-13, 10:37

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I just booted and the sound card is gone again, so I looked at the resources and IRQ 05, which the sound card uses when it decides to appear, isn't being used by anything. Also, the I/O ranges that the sound card uses when it appears (0220-022F, 0330-0331, and 0388-038B) aren't being used by …

Re: Windows 95 keeps "losing" my network card

Posted on 2023-07-12, 23:58

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

These are the resources being used when the sound card decides to show up:

Re: Windows 95 keeps "losing" my network card

Posted on 2023-07-12, 21:47

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Today I swapped out my HDD controller card for a better one and the NIC Vanishing Act returned, and this time it was accompanied by an equally amazing Sound Card Vanishing Act. I got the NIC to stick around by disabling its PnP mode via 3c5x9cfg.exe and then doing the Add Hardware + Have Disk …

Re: Windows 95 keeps "losing" my network card

Posted on 2023-07-11, 16:56

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Well if the sound card has jumpers and so you set up the card manually, and Win95 can't exactly know what's there and can't control the settings, then it is non-pnp. So that Acer Magic s23 card is pnp. Another possibility is that if the conflict is not resolved by changing settings, one of the …

Re: Windows 95 keeps "losing" my network card

Posted on 2023-07-11, 07:34

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

There should be a sound driver present, otherwise how would a windows application know there is sound? There is now, but like I said, installing the sound driver is low priority for me because I don't use sound for much of anything on that PC. I don't even have speakers for it. To test whether the …

Re: Windows 95 keeps "losing" my network card

Posted on 2023-07-10, 21:56

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Thanks the3dfxdude and auron, I'll try 3c5x9cfg.exe if it acts up again, but for now it seems to be fixed; it has booted at least 25 times now and hasn't "lost" the NIC yet. The only thing I did was install my sound card drivers. It was a new installation of Windows and since I don't use sound much …

Re: Windows 95 keeps "losing" my network card

Posted on 2023-07-10, 05:45

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

It's probably a hardware problem not a software one. In that case theres not a software solution. Why do you think it's a hardware problem? Like I said, I've used this exact same hardware with WFW 3.11 and NT 4.0 and neither of them have ever "lost" the network card. Also, the network card works …

Windows 95 keeps "losing" my network card

Posted on 2023-07-10, 04:05

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

My card is recognized during the installation of Windows 95 (version 4.00.1111) and gets listed as "3Com EtherLink III ISA (3C509b-TPO) in PnP mode" in the Network dialog box, and it shows up in Device Manager and the network card works fine right away. Then after a couple/few reboots it stops …

Re: I give up. And usually i'm a though one.

Posted on 2021-02-23, 17:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Edit: I noticed this thread about another EPROM programmer that seems to work for what you need: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=79620 I have an older one of those (TL866CS) and can confirm that it works fine for burning BIOS EEPROMs, or at least it did with the type I tried it with ( …

Re: I give up. And usually i'm a though one.

Posted on 2021-02-23, 17:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

OTOH, if your BIOS can't be upgraded and you're stuck with the 8 GB limit, grab a CF to IDE adapter and use a Compact Flash card. They work fine for pure DOS gaming but become a bit sluggish under Win98. My CF card (which is a new SanDisk UDMA7 card, 32 GB) isn't sluggish in Windows 98 at all; it …

Re: Problems with Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2021-02-22, 10:18

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I just noticed a new problem with SE: when I select "shutdown" it restarts instead. "Disable Fast Shutdown" in msconfig is selected by default, though I tried deselecting it but it didn't make a difference. I also removed the 1 GB of RAM and put in 512 MB, but that didn't change anything either. I …

Re: Problems with Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2021-02-22, 09:00

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I got Windows 98 SE installed again, and DMA for the CF drive was not enabled by default like it was in FE, and enabling it solved the issue with the slow drive and freezing/lagging mouse pointer during disk activity, so thanks for that suggestion. In fact, the benchmark is actually higher now than …

Re: Problems with Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2021-02-22, 00:06

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

If you are trying to write a file larger than 4 GB to a FAT32 partition, then that would do it. It's an NTFS partition in XP. I have XP and 98 FE, dual boot, on the old Maxtor HDD (I've left it disconnected since putting the CF card in there), so I put the CF card on the secondary IDE channel and …

Re: Problems with Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2021-02-21, 22:40

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

We know that you know lots of things about computers. ? Try some of the suggestions. I can't check right now because SE is gone Before I install SE again to try anything, I want an image of the CF card with FE on it, but the first tool I tried (HDD Raw Copy Tool) isn't working ("write error 5 can …

Re: Problems with Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2021-02-21, 19:43

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

DMA will not necessarily be enabled in the OS merely because it is enabled in the BIOS. One way to check would be in Device Manager. I can't check right now because SE is gone, but it's enabled by default in FE: https://i.imgur.com/lFe2qa2.png Does it get enabled by default in SE? By the time …

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