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Problems installing Win311 ?

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First post, by Intel486dx33

Posted on 2019-02-05, 03:27

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I am trying to install Win311 but It stops working at detecting network card ?
Is there anyway to disable network card seek during setup ?
I know there is "Setup /F" which forces the seek of netowrk card but is there any switch to install Win311 without network card seek ?
I am using a 486 motherboard with 3 PCI slots and 4 ISA slots, ALI chipset ( American Megatrends Bios 1993 )
I only have PCI network cards at the moment. I have 3com 3C509b, and AMD chipset, and Netgear FA310tx network cards.
The AMD usually work with Win-NT-3.5.1 and they all work with Win95c.
I usually don't have any problems with the AMD network cards.

So I install Win311 with "Setup" command.
Go threw the menu setup process okay and then then files are copies a NEW screen appear where setup try to detect Network card.
But this is where the setup hangs and I can't get past this step.
If I remove the network card will setup skip the network card detection process ?
Are PCI cards supported in Win311 setup ?

All my hardware and computer works because I already tried it with Win95c and everything works.

Reply 1 of 4, by DankEngihn

Posted on 2019-02-07, 03:36

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If you remove the card, it should continue with setup.

Reply 2 of 4, by dkarguth

Posted on 2019-02-07, 05:31

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I second that notion. You should be able to install the drivers after the installation of windows. However, the hang might be a sign of a resource conflict of some kind. I am not as familiar with PCI as I am with ISA, so I may be completely wrong here, but is it possible that the 3com card and the netgear card are conflicting with each other for resources? That would absolutely cause a hang in some situations.

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Reply 3 of 4, by yawetaG

Posted on 2019-02-07, 06:15

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Is the network card connected to the network and does it have an IP address? Win 3.x will hang if that isn't the case.

Reply 4 of 4, by dkarguth

Posted on 2019-02-07, 07:03

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yawetaG wrote:
Is the network card connected to the network and does it have an IP address? Win 3.x will hang if that isn't the case.

???
The card doesn't receive an IP address until the DHCP client requests one. The network card won't have any kind of driver loaded yet until windows is installed, so there won't be a DHCP client yet to request an IP address until windows is finished installing.

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