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Subject: Re: problem installing 2.1R on Acer Pentium 75
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> > > I guess it had to happen some time.  After *many* trouble-free
> > > installations in the past I am now having trouble installing 2.1R on a
> > > pentium 75 Acer machine.  The system boots with the boot.flp and goes
> > > through the normal messages until it has displayed the device probe
> > > messages for PCI bus devices and then just hangs.  I have tried both
> > > atapi.flp and boot.flp with the same results.
> > >
> > > The machine configuration is as follows:
> > >
> > > Pentium 75 cpu
> > > 16 MB RAM
> > > ne2000 ethernet card (detected OK)
> > > sony ATAPI CDROM (detected OK with atapi.flp)
> > > quantum fireball 1222 MB IDE HDD
> > 
> > I pulled the NE2000 card out and rebooted and the install menu came up
> > fine.  I put a different NE2000 card (which I had lying around) in and
> > things stopped working again.  I guess my question now is if I put in a
> > different (non-NE2000) ethernet card in will my problems go away?
> 
> drove to work and got an old 8-bit SMC card and plugged it in.
> Everything is now OK.  

Chances are the problematic NE2000 card is set to an IRQ or IO port address that conflicts with 
something else in the machine.  Find out what where the other hardware is at, then configure the 
card correctly.

Had a similar problem with an Adaptec SCSI card - somehow the IRQ was set to the same one as the 
primary HD controller.  Not good, since the machine wouldn't even boot enough to set the card to a 
different IRQ.


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