Hi daffymaggie,

What is the Brand and Model Number of your Computer? What is the Brand
Name of your Computer BIOS? Can you access Computer BIOS? If you can't, then
you need to take the computer into a Computer Shop to help you out.


--
thecreator

"daffymaggie" <daffymaggie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E2498997-FF42-45DC-A41A-E079E173BA96@microsoft.com...
>I thought I did everything correctly........but obviously I didn't because
>it
> doesn't work. Here is the story!
>
> Bought the D-Link DFE-530TX+ Ethernet adapter:
> installed the driver from the CD that came with it.
> shut down the computer. unplugged the power cord. opened up the tower.
> installed the D-Link DFE-530TX+ Ethernet adapter in an emply PCI slot.
> turned on my computer.
> nothing..............................
> computer did not recognize it.
>
> did everything again...........but put it in a different PCI
> slot..............nothing.
>
> disabled my internal (Intel pro 10/100) hard drive. nothing.
>
> called customer service on the device. said it was bad. sent it back.
>
> got another D-Link DFE-530TX+ Ethernet adapter.
> Did everything the same as above. Nothing.
>
> called customer service. The said that there is no way two devices could
> be
> bad. That I may need to do something with the BIOS and or enable my PCI
> slots. I have no idea what that means or how to do that or what I am
> doing
> wrong??? Can anyone please help me!!!! Are my PCI slots bad or
> damaged???
> I've never had anything in there??
>