Problems with pci card

[WholeMIlk]

HP pavilion 7125 running windows 95a
trying to install SMC 1211tx (pci network card)

Windows doesn't pick up the card as being there.
Tried installing the drivers anyway, but no go. No settings in the bios for the PCI slots.
Tried all three available PCI slots.

any ideas?

 

[TheWart]

in the BIOS is PnP enabled (Plug and Play OS). that might need to be for this old version of windows to detect the card.

 

[WholeMIlk]

Yes, PNP is enabled

 

[bacillus]

try using add new hardware in control panel!

 

[WholeMIlk]

Tried that, goes through the check for new hardware (takes about 5 minutes), then says it didn't find anything. I can try installing it anyway, but of course it doesn't work because windows doesn't know where to find it...

 

[presto]

I had endless problems like that with Win95, mostly IRQ conflicts. The problem is that Win95 never should have been released. It wasn't finished until the version they called Win98SE. Every time I installed a new card or piece of hardware the whole system would start experiencing serial crashes.

My solution: Win98SE, a vastly more stable OS, and disable PnP in the BIOS setup, allowing (or forcing) BIOS to assign resources. End of problems- even through processor, memory, HD and even mobo upgrades. System is finally so flawlessly stable that I haven't upgraded the OS. (I'll be damned before I'll give any more $$ to MS! They should pay me for all the grief and expense of wrestling with their faulty products.)

With Win95 I could never get scanner/printer/digicam/soundcard/network card working all at once; sometimes no more than 1 or 2 of these devices at a time, sometimes nohing worked. Get ahold of a Win98SE disk, run fdisk.exe and reinstall your OS and drivers. It sounds scary but you won't regret it.