card not detected on old PCI motherboard

I have a 10 year old socket 7 motherboard with an AMD up running at
300Mhz with Windows 98 which was able to install a Linksys wireless
card a year back. However, when I tried to install a Realtek 10/100M
Fast Ethernet card, the operating system didn't detect it. I installed
the drivers and yet still it doesn't see the card under control panel/
system/networking.

It detects fine on an AMD Athlon motherboard running Windows 98 so
what's wrong with my old motherboard?

Thanks for your input.


blackhead

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:59:16 -0800 (PST), blackhead <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>I have a 10 year old socket 7 motherboard with an AMD up running at
>300Mhz with Windows 98 which was able to install a Linksys wireless
>card a year back. However, when I tried to install a Realtek 10/100M
>Fast Ethernet card, the operating system didn't detect it. I installed
>the drivers and yet still it doesn't see the card under control panel/
>system/networking.
>
>It detects fine on an AMD Athlon motherboard running Windows 98 so
>what's wrong with my old motherboard?
>
>Thanks for your input.

Have you tried the nic in a different PCI slot yet?

On 6 Feb, 23:47, daytripper <day_tri...@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:59:16 -0800 (PST), blackhead <larryhar...@softhome.net>
> wrote:
>
> >I have a 10 year old socket 7 motherboard with an AMD up running at
> >300Mhz with Windows 98 which was able to install a Linksys wireless
> >card a year back. However, when I tried to install a Realtek 10/100M
> >Fast Ethernet card, the operating system didn't detect it. I installed
> >the drivers and yet still it doesn't see the card under control panel/
> >system/networking.
>
> >It detects fine on an AMD Athlon motherboard running Windows 98 so
> >what's wrong with my old motherboard?
>
> >Thanks for your input.
>
> Have you tried the nic in a different PCI slot yet?

No. Should this make a difference?

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 02:53:54 -0800 (PST), blackhead <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>On 6 Feb, 23:47, daytripper <day_tri...@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:59:16 -0800 (PST), blackhead <larryhar...@softhome.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >I have a 10 year old socket 7 motherboard with an AMD up running at
>> >300Mhz with Windows 98 which was able to install a Linksys wireless
>> >card a year back. However, when I tried to install a Realtek 10/100M
>> >Fast Ethernet card, the operating system didn't detect it. I installed
>> >the drivers and yet still it doesn't see the card under control panel/
>> >system/networking.
>>
>> >It detects fine on an AMD Athlon motherboard running Windows 98 so
>> >what's wrong with my old motherboard?
>>
>> >Thanks for your input.
>>
>> Have you tried the nic in a different PCI slot yet?
>
>No. Should this make a difference?

It might. Certainly worth a try...

On 7 Feb, 16:36, daytripper <day_tri...@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 02:53:54 -0800 (PST), blackhead <larryhar...@softhome.net>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> >On 6 Feb, 23:47, daytripper <day_tri...@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:59:16 -0800 (PST), blackhead <larryhar...@softhome.net>
> >> wrote:
>
> >> >I have a 10 year old socket 7 motherboard with an AMD up running at
> >> >300Mhz with Windows 98 which was able to install a Linksys wireless
> >> >card a year back. However, when I tried to install a Realtek 10/100M
> >> >Fast Ethernet card, the operating system didn't detect it. I installed
> >> >the drivers and yet still it doesn't see the card under control panel/
> >> >system/networking.
>
> >> >It detects fine on an AMD Athlon motherboard running Windows 98 so
> >> >what's wrong with my old motherboard?
>
> >> >Thanks for your input.
>
> >> Have you tried the nic in a different PCI slot yet?
>
> >No. Should this make a difference?
>
> It might. Certainly worth a try...- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text

-tried it on all 5 slots, still the same problem

blackhead wrote:
> -tried it on all 5 slots, still the same problem

Windows 98 might require a cleanup reinstall. That was a typical remedy
for those old versions of Windows at one time.

Download and burn an ISO image of Ubuntu or Elive Linux Live Install
CDs. These CDs can be booted up from a CD-ROM without needing to be
fully installed on the hard disk. Boot into the Linux cd (assuming your
computer is not too old to boot from cd), and see if the ethernet card
is seen there. If it works on Linux, then it should work on Windows too.

Yousuf Khan