Problem with Asus Board...Old guy needs help..More Help....Please Help

[nokeo]

Been out of the loop for a year or two....Tried AMD for the first time....Built 1.2 box with noooo problem....but...while I was doing this it left me with an empty box....Found an oem K7M-RM asus board with 800 chip at a great price....SOOO...I put it together with lots of spare parts....Everything went OK...Even had no problem installing winME...Thought all was well...UNTIL

I tried to put a Nic card in...The system will not boot far enough to get into the Bios...Tried two...1 old TI chip based...the other was an SMC KNE30 BT....I have no other PCI cards installed....when the card is removed , everything boots fine....All I get with it in is the video post.... then the megatrend post....Then says checking NVRAM and locks....Have tried to do my homework for 6 or 8 hours now....have learned alot about 4 in 1 drivers.....mini port drivers....NVRAM....but can't find any connection....Any thoughts would be appreciated.......Stealth 111 s540 video card...cdrom...floopy...128mb ram....WD hard drive...
Thanks for any help

 

[lkf]

I think your experience a conflict at your IRQ and u must change it.
in order to do that...boot your windows at safe mode

 

[Boonesmi]

did you try different pci slots? as you probably know some pci slots share irq's (for example the first pci slot usually shares irq with the agp slot)

 

[nokeo]

Thanks for the help....Yes I tried all 3 PCI slots....and as normal with cheap combo got no manual or driver cd

Will check IRQ's in safe mode...but won't know if it is a conflict with the NIC...cause it wont go that far