No, I never tried reinstalling the drivers. I was considering
starting in safe mode and removing all references to the ethernet card
in Device Manager, then restarting normally and having Windows detect
the card and install the drivers.
I'm not sure if that would solve the problem or make it worse.
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:43:31 -0300, "John John (MVP)"
<audetweld@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
>There isn't much that you are going to be able to do about it unless you
>want to reinstall Windows with a Standard HAL. Did you trying
>reinstalling the drivers?
>
>John
>
>J Golden wrote:
>
>> I tried all the slots and XP still insists on using IRQ 4 at times.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:02:13 -0300, "John John (MVP)"
>> <audetweld@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Try moving the card to a different PCI slot.
>>>
>>>John
>>>
>>>J Golden wrote:
>>>
>>>>On my home PC, when XP puts my Cisco Ethernet PCI card on IRQ 11, all
>>>>is fine. But when it occasionally puts it on IRQ 4, the card comes up
>>>>with FF-FF-FF etc in its hardware addressess. It I manually change the
>>>>card "type" at that point (from autosense to 100 duplex or vice versa
>>>>depending on what it was set to) the correct hardware address is
>>>>indicated and the card works fine (except for the added posssibility
>>>>of a conflict with the devices that share IRQ 4.
>>>>
>>>>Is there a way to force XP to always use IRQ 11 for the Ethernet card?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks.
>>
>>
Linear Mode
