[thelist] OT Network question XP Pro

Dave schemer at speedeenet.com
Thu Jul 29 21:37:16 CDT 2004


Thanks Ken, I guess I was doing the best I could with what I had to work 
with. I see other stuff not working now like sound and cdrw so I am 
doing a clean install. Seems like I used to get more work done before :-(
Thanks,
Dave

Ken Schaefer wrote:

>If the SIS NIC has a miniport driver you may not be able to uninstall it.
>Just disable the device. Assign the IP address to the new onboard NIC. You
>will get a warning saying that the IP address has been allocated to another
>device - ignore it. As long as both devices aren't connected to the network
>at the same time, you won't have any problems (the error message says this
>as well - namely that the reason it's giving you a warning is in case you
>end up connecting both devices at the same time).
>
>Cheers
>Ken
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Dave" <schemer at speedeenet.com>
>Subject: [thelist] OT Network question XP Pro
>
>
>: I apologize in advance if this is off topic but I am feeling like a MS
>: Beta tester right now :-(  I replaced my motherboard on my XP Pro box to
>: resolve some stability issues, and after the never ending loop problem
>: was figured out on boot up, I have a few other issues that maybe someone
>: has experienced first hand. I know the answer about doing a "clean
>: install" but I wanted to wait on that if I could. The problem is that
>: after doing a repair install to get out of the looping bootup, I have a
>: system that won't let me reuse an IP address from the old motherboards
>: onboard NIC. My new Intel board has built in LAN but the old one had a
>: SIS chipset version. When I try to use the same IP address as the old
>: nonexistant NIC it throws an error type message that says that address
>: is already assigned to the nonexistant device. I can see the SIS device
>: in the device manager when I unhide the devices, but it won't allow me
>: to delete it as it says it may be needed on bootup. The other problem is
>: that the Intel INF Driver won't install. In the end I disabled the SIS
>: device and got the network up and running using a different IP address.
>
>  
>


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