Chris Hill
06-28-2003, 05:16 AM
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 23:08:40 -0400, "Gerula" <gerula@sympatico.ca>
wrote:
Hi there,I have an old Dell OptiPlex XMT 5133 computer,and recently I had to reinstall the operating system -Windows NT 4.0, service pack 6.This computer is peculiar: it has two boards inside.One seems to be the mother board, with the processorand the RAM memory on it. Separate there is anotherlittle board, with only the ISA and PCI slots on it.This is all good and nice, the problem is that afterre-installing the operating system, the cards that areplugged in the ISA or PCI slots are not visible tothe computer anymore - like there is no link nowbetween the little board and the mother board.I don't remember unplugging anything, if that is thecase I will try and see if there are any loose ends,but I think it is not a hardware problem, because ina way the computer sees new hardware but it is notable to do anything about it.What I did is I bought another network card, the oldone was a ISA one, the new one is a PCI one - afterI switched them, at boot time, I get a:"Plug and Play error,Press F1 to continue, F2 to go to settings ...".If I press F1 it continues booting and, when it's up, itstill doesn't see the network card, and if I press F2 wego to BIOS settings, where I'm lost, because everythingseems normal to me, I've read all the entries but noneseemed to have anything to do with ISA or PCI.If anybody has any ideas please help!
Installing the card may have disturbed the connection. Remove all
cards, remove the backplane from its slot and reinstall it. If that
doesn't do it, the machine may not be able to cope with your new
network card.
wrote:
Hi there,I have an old Dell OptiPlex XMT 5133 computer,and recently I had to reinstall the operating system -Windows NT 4.0, service pack 6.This computer is peculiar: it has two boards inside.One seems to be the mother board, with the processorand the RAM memory on it. Separate there is anotherlittle board, with only the ISA and PCI slots on it.This is all good and nice, the problem is that afterre-installing the operating system, the cards that areplugged in the ISA or PCI slots are not visible tothe computer anymore - like there is no link nowbetween the little board and the mother board.I don't remember unplugging anything, if that is thecase I will try and see if there are any loose ends,but I think it is not a hardware problem, because ina way the computer sees new hardware but it is notable to do anything about it.What I did is I bought another network card, the oldone was a ISA one, the new one is a PCI one - afterI switched them, at boot time, I get a:"Plug and Play error,Press F1 to continue, F2 to go to settings ...".If I press F1 it continues booting and, when it's up, itstill doesn't see the network card, and if I press F2 wego to BIOS settings, where I'm lost, because everythingseems normal to me, I've read all the entries but noneseemed to have anything to do with ISA or PCI.If anybody has any ideas please help!
Installing the card may have disturbed the connection. Remove all
cards, remove the backplane from its slot and reinstall it. If that
doesn't do it, the machine may not be able to cope with your new
network card.