network card

[badgers]

I have a Asus P3V4X motherboard
With
Voodoo 3 3000 AGP Video
Network Everywhere NC100 V2 PCI
ISA soundblaster AWE64

I run 3 Operating systems
Win95 SR2
Win NT 4.0 SP6
and Linux
The following problem happens regardless of the operating system.

Sometimes when I try to turn my computer on I get a blank screen. The monitor power button is blinking(which indicates no signal)
I have to unplug the thing and wait three seconds.
Plug it back in and then hit the power button again.
I end up in my bios. I exit my bios with out changing anything and then I boot up like nothing happened.

This started happening after the cable company installed the NIC for my cable modem.

My NIC is the fourth PCI slot down from my AGP video and two slots up from my ISA sound card.
If I run SiSoft sandra it tells me that my PCI latency is to high(80) for my NIC.
The problem is that my bios indicates that my PCI latency is 32.

Has anyone ever seen this before?
could it be something else? and just be coincidence that my NIC was installed about the same time this started happening?

Thank you for your time and have a good day

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I appreciate your help, Thank you in advance.

[Pakrat]

It may be related.

Most times when I unplug the network cable or plug it in, my monitor goes blank and I have to shutoff the box and turn it on again.

[Tuttle]

It might be worth moving the NIC to a different PCI slot (closer to the AGP card).

If you want to rule out coincidence, remove the NIC completely and try booting a few times like that. If that fixes it, it's almost certainly the NIC's presence which is triggering the problem.

[badgers]

I have a cable modem.
If I move the NIC will I need to set every thing up again for the cable modem to work?
I am really new to networking.
What info do I need to know to set up a NIC to work with a cable modem?

thank you for your time and have a good day


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I appreciate your help, Thank you in advance.

[Tuttle]

If you move the NIC, Windows should just redetect it next time you boot and then reinstall the drivers. Hopefully it will remember all your cable-related settings, but if not then the ones you'll need to re-enter can be found in Control Panel|Network, under the properties for TCP/IP. If there's more than one TCP/IP entry there, it's the one which has your network card's name listed on the same line (eg 'TCP/IP -> Your NIC').

[badgers]

thank you for the help I will try that tonight!
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I appreciate your help, Thank you in advance.

[badgers]

OK this is strange.
I turned off the system and plugged the NIC into PCI slot number 1
booted into 95 and nothing.
not plug and play indicating new hardware detected.
NT could not find the card either.
now isnt that strange!

I hate my NIC and it hates me


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I appreciate your help, Thank you in advance.

[Tuttle]

Try it in PCI slot 2. If it still doesn't work properly, take it out completely and verify that your system stops having problems. If taking it out fixes it, call your cable company and see if you can get them to replace the NIC, it might be faulty.

Also, look on the driver disk that came with the NIC to see if there's a diagnostic util you can try.