disappearing ethernet card Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 5:52 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by jack hall (289 messages posted) Went to Dell xp on dsl. Set up this IBM Net Vista(my old primary computer) which was on dial up. Removed dial up modem and reinstalled 98SE( after formatting) and installed the ethernet card which came with the unit. Card is an Accton shipped new with the computer and drivers are straight from IBM (Loveno). Want this as a backup and connected thru a router but haven't gotten that far yet. I.E. 6 sp-1 with as many updates as is possible. Connected first time (AT@T dsl) no issues. Used it for about 3 days for testing and adding things such as Adobe reader, "The Fie Splitter ect. Standard things I've always used. Packed it up for later use. Couple of weeks later set it back up and no joy. Checking under devices, no network adapter shown. Just disappeared. In network, Client for Microsoft Networks, Accton fast ethernet controller, and tpc/ip all show and bindings are intact. This problem occurs every time it is left off for a week or more. 4 times now. Exact same problem. Hope someone there can point me to a solution. One issue, and I can't remember when it happened. On bootup, a popup tells me it is looking for drivers for an "unknown" device. There are only 3 pci slots, and the only one being used is for the ethernet card and that message appears whether the card is installed and working or not. Thanks in advance.. Jack.... Responses to this message: re: disappearing ethernet card (gewg_: Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 6:55 pm) re: disappearing ethernet card (gewg_: Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 10:54 am) All messages in this thread [show all] disappearing ethernet card (jack hall: Sat, Feb 28, 2009, 5:52 pm) re: disappearing ethernet card (gewg_: Sat, Feb 28, 2009, 6:55 pm) re: disappearing ethernet card (jack hall: Sat, Feb 28, 2009, 7:17 pm) re: disappearing ethernet card (Eric Gold: Mon, Mar 2, 2009, 1:25 pm) OMG. Has "runsan" opened a new account? (gewg_: Mon, Mar 2, 2009, 5:29 pm) re: OMG. Has "runsan" opened a new account? (jack hall: Tue, Mar 3, 2009, 7:44 am) re: disappearing ethernet card (jack hall: Tue, Mar 3, 2009, 7:51 am) re: disappearing ethernet card (gewg_: Tue, Mar 3, 2009, 10:54 am) re: disappearing ethernet card (jack hall: Tue, Mar 3, 2009, 11:43 am) re: disappearing ethernet card (gewg_: Tue, Mar 3, 2009, 12:50 pm) re: disappearing ethernet card (jack hall: Wed, Mar 4, 2009, 10:12 am) re: disappearing ethernet card (jack hall: Fri, Mar 13, 2009, 3:08 pm) re: disappearing ethernet card (gewg_: Fri, Mar 13, 2009, 4:38 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum