Any Hardware install on W2K SP3

This is a discussion about Any Hardware install on W2K SP3 in the Windows Hardware category; I have tried to install 2 different nic's (Belkin F5D5000 and a Linksys LNE100TX) and a Cisco PC350 Airnet card in a WIN2K SP3 machine with no luck. Each time I receive a message that the driver data is invalid or not of the expected type.

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I have tried to install 2 different nic's (Belkin F5D5000 and a Linksys LNE100TX) and a Cisco PC350 Airnet card in a WIN2K SP3 machine with no luck. Each time I receive a message that the driver data is invalid or not of the expected type. The device then shows in Device Manager under other devices as not configured correctly, Code 1
My system has an ECS K7S5A mb, 512 mb of Kingston PC2100 ddr, running W2K SP3, Leadtek Geoforce 2 MX Video w/32mb and a SB 512 pci sound, AMD 1800XP+(not overclocked) and the bios is currently set to a PnP operating system.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Steve

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Do you get that error with the drivers included with the hardware, and drivers downloaded from the manufacturer's web sites? Did you do a clean os install yet?

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Adam,
I have gotten the error both ways. The install was new several months ago and I am pretty careful about installing things. I just installed sp3 in the last two weeks but got the error both before and after the service pack install.
I just downloaded and tried to install the latest Belkin driver and it seems to find only the driver in the C:\winnt\inf directory even though I point it towards the C:\belkin directory. I then get a message about Microsoft signed drivers stating that this one is not. Is there an option to only use Microsoft signed drivers that I may have accidentally set?
Thanks,