AIM: Installation And Checking Of Network Card Drive
- in windows 95/98
Search for a directory "Win95" or similar, and locate the INF-file, containing the Setup-Information. If no floppy disk is provided, then the driver for this NIC should be included already with Windows.
Now, we are ready to install the board.
Since it is a PCI-card, Windows 95/98 will detect it on startup and either will use its own driver (if the card is known)
or will prompt you for the "Manufactures Disk":
where you now need to define the location (directory) for the INF-file.
To verify, which resources (I/O-address and Interrupt/IRQ) has been assigned, you can try in the Control-Panel, Network-Applet, the Properties of the PCI Network card:
but for a PCI-card, the tab: "Resources" (listing the I/O-address and Interrupt/IRQ) is usually missing.
For that, use in the "Control-Panel" the System-Applet, tab: "Device Manager"
Locate under "Network adapters" your PCI-network card and check its "Properties"
You can try to Double-Click on a resource in an attempt to change the values:
But also "un-checking" the "Use of automatic settings":
will NOT allow you to manually define a configuration value.
Check in the "Control-Panel" "System-Applet under tab: "Device Manager" in the Properties of the "Computer", that the Interrupt is not used by multiple devices:
If another device is using already the Interrupt, try to move the other device to a different Interrupt or check in your BIOS: most BIOS version allow either to assign an IRQ to a specific PCI-slot or allow to reserve specific IRQs NOT to be used by a PCI-device.
2 In Windows 7
2) Control Panel window will appear, click Hardware and Sound.
Note: If you view Control Panel by Large Icons or Small Icons, you can just double click the Device Manager.
3) Click on Device Manager in Hardware and Sound window.
4) The Device Manager will appear, then locate and expand Network adapters and right click the network or wireless adapter you want to check, finally click on Properties.
5) The network or wireless adapter properties window will appear, your driver works well if it shows This device is working properly under General tab. You can also manually configure network adapter’s driver parameters under Advanced tab.
Note: If your device does not work well, click on Driver tab to check driver details, update driver, rollback driver, disable driver or uninstall driver.
