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Tip #3
Carey
"Peter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I had a working system with an ethernet card.
> But the performance was very very lousy (0.1 % of 100Mb)
> So I was told to try to put my card in another PCI slot.
> So I did.
> WIN(* recognizes new hardware after a reboot. I installed
> the driver that came with the Ethernet card (again), and
> the system asks for the WIN98 CD. I put it in the drive.
> I configured TCP/IP and NETBEUI for the ethernet card
> again, and was expecting it all worked again.
> But....
>
> the network had still the same lousy performance, and
> somehow my modem connection was messed up.
> I can can still phone in, but as soon as an application
> tries something to do with the modem connection, this
> application crashes.
>
> Another problem is that my login window (Client for MS
> networks) does not popup also anymore.
>
> Finally I tried to reinstall WIN98, but that only made it
> worse. Now my ethernet card also stopped working.
>
> What to do?