NIC and IRQ conflicts

[phoznik]

I was trying to help somebody with their computer, but I ran into a few problems. This is a Gateway desktop on the network in a dorm. After a lot of playing with stuff, I found that whenever I unplug the network cord the computer works fine (without the internet), and when I plug the cord in, the computer successfully receives an IP address and stuff from the DCHP server. But I can't run anything, it frezzes when I try to run something from the start menu and it just refuses to run anything on the desktop. I found that it initially had the same IRQ as the onboard USB controller, once I disabled the controller the computer worked fine with internet untill I restarted, then it did the same thing as before. I tried the NIC in all of the available PCI slots with the same thing happening. (in 2 of the slots it had conflicts with the USB, in the other 2 open slots it had issues with the sound card (Live!))

I probably left a few things out, let me know if you need to know something else.

 

[jackschmittusa]

Try putting it into the highest slot, even if you have to move another card. It may have to be in a bus mastering slot and not all mbs have bus mastering beyond the first 1 or 2 slots. Haven't seen that in a while, but used to see it a lot.

 

[phoznik]

I had it right under the AGP but the sound card was only one below that, do you think it'd work if I moved the sound card down more?

It's not a terribly old computer, it's a 1Ghz AMD...

 

[jackschmittusa]

You can try moving the sound card to a lower slot. You can also try installing the nic without the soundcard in the box, then install the soundcard. Windows may then assign different resources for it. Do you have a setting for PnP os in the bios? You can also try changing that setting.

 

[LiLithTecH]

Sounds more like a driver issue rather than a Resource issue.

What OS and NIC card are you using?
(some Dlink, Netgear, Linksys nic cards do not play well with SBLive's)

 

[phoznik]

The bios is all retarted, there are hardly any options to change, including PnP Os. I had hard time even getting into it cause it didn't tell me what key to press on startup. I tried F2, F10, delete, and insert; none worked so I just pressed a bunch of keys and I get in somtimes.

First thing that doesn't help is that it's running Windows ME. And it does have a D-Link DFE TX+ and a SB, I don't remember offhand if it's live though. If it is a Live, is there any hope of getting it to work? I'll be working on it again maybe wednesday.

 

[jackschmittusa]

Just put a D-link 530tx in a box last week that had a SB Live value in it, Winxp. No problems. F1 works on some computers to get into the setup.

 

[Mark R]

Get a new NIC, preferably one from a different manufacturer.

It may just be an incorrectly configured driver, or a hosed windows install - but for $5 just get a different NIC and try it, you've got very little to lose.

If it doesn't fix the problem, then you've got a spare NIC for troubleshooting, and you then know it isn't the NIC itself.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: Mark R
Get a new NIC, preferably one from a different manufacturer.

It may just be an incorrectly configured driver, or a hosed windows install - but for $5 just get a different NIC and try it, you've got very little to lose.

If it doesn't fix the problem, then you've got a spare NIC for troubleshooting, and you then know it isn't the NIC itself.

 

[phoznik]

I finally got a chance to look at it again this week, but unfortunatly I havn't a chance to get another NIC. So, long story short, it still doesn't work. But I've got a related question. I read a few things about Windows 2K and XP assigning multiple devices to IRQ 9 or 11. This machine is running ME and it had multiple devices on IRQ 9, could that still be the same thing even though I haven't found this problem mentioned with ME?

 

[GunDog]

Move the nic card away from the video card. The AGP port and FIRST pci slot share the same resources.

 

[phoznik]

It had the same problem no matter where the card was. It never had conflicts with the video card, even when it was in the first slot.

 

[Big Lar]

Your gonna need to assign an addy to the nic card, I'll dig thru my notes as to what it should be, in the meantime, maybe someone can provide 1?