Moving PCI card causes reinstall of drivers
This is a discussion about Moving PCI card causes reinstall of drivers in the Windows Hardware category; I know that is the way it is, but why? When you move a card to another slot, Windows has a memory problem and forgets that the card was even there and has to reinstall the driver all over again. Worse yet, I have a 3Com NIC that when the O/S was loaded with the card in place the card was reconiged and the driver wa ...
I know that is the way it is, but why?
When you move a card to another slot, Windows has a memory problem and forgets that the card was even there and has to reinstall the driver all over again.
Worse yet, I have a 3Com NIC that when the O/S was loaded with the card in place the card was reconiged and the driver was installed with no problem. When I moved the card (to make way for a dual slot card combo) Windows couldn't find the driver! Even when I put the CD in it still couldn't find the driver!
I did have a driver from 3com that worked after a couple of times tring different versions that aren't labeled the best.
I'm running 2k /sp4
Input...........?
When you move a card to another slot, Windows has a memory problem and forgets that the card was even there and has to reinstall the driver all over again.
Worse yet, I have a 3Com NIC that when the O/S was loaded with the card in place the card was reconiged and the driver was installed with no problem. When I moved the card (to make way for a dual slot card combo) Windows couldn't find the driver! Even when I put the CD in it still couldn't find the driver!
I did have a driver from 3com that worked after a couple of times tring different versions that aren't labeled the best.
I'm running 2k /sp4
Input...........?
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Just one acronym for you on this:
PnP (Plug-N-Play)
The technical reasons are that the card, PCI or ISA has now been assigned a new IRQ by the system bios and thus looks like a new device to the OS
I would d/l the latest drivers for your model 3com card and copy then to floppy disk. The old floppy drive is still valuable for this reason alone...
PnP (Plug-N-Play)
The technical reasons are that the card, PCI or ISA has now been assigned a new IRQ by the system bios and thus looks like a new device to the OS
I would d/l the latest drivers for your model 3com card and copy then to floppy disk. The old floppy drive is still valuable for this reason alone...
