Re: [H] Switching NICS

2008-02-01 Thread DHSinclair
Thanks Joe, The conversion is complete! And does data now fly! Never seen this PC move data this fast. :) If my xdsl isp wishes to complain about my change of MAC addy, I'll deal with this in the future! Turns out, on the Asus A7N8X-E-deluxe the GLan chip (Marvell 88E8001-LKJ) is not ena

Re: [H] Switching NICS

2008-01-31 Thread DHSinclair
Joe, Thank you for your take. Yes, I have learned (the hard way!) that in Pooters, 'assume' often leads to the mother of all screw-ups. But, in the past 8 years, W2K has asked me for drivers only 2 times, and, I expected it both times. For any kind of network doo-dad, W2K always seemed to have

Re: [H] Switching NICS

2008-01-31 Thread Joe User
Hello DHSinclair, Thursday, January 31, 2008, 12:14:14 PM, you wrote: > 6. Reboot PC to W2K - hope OS picks up new nic(!) >(here, I am going to assume that W2K has a default driver for the new nic) > 7. Admin new nic in CP/Device Manager (ipconfig/all info) > 8. Check for new 'Local Area Con

[H] Switching NICS

2008-01-31 Thread DHSinclair
I'd like to try and enable the on-board GBit NICs on my 3 Asus m/b's. Am using Win2000proSP4. Question is: What is the proper order of steps to "swap" the on-board nics? I am presently using the 10/100 nVidia nforce MCP Network adapters. I've already printed out the ipconfig/all screens to cap