SillyDog701

[keith]

You all must wonder by now, what kind of junk computer I'm running.

Well, lets just say, its a nightmare, and it just gets worse.

After some time fighting with the sound card and modem, they were installed successfully. But my
network card won't install. I get the point where it prompts me for my Windows Millenium CD, but
it starts copying and then comes up "Cannot find source disk. Press Skip to skip file. press OK
to try copying again or press Cancel to cancel el00bnt5.sys was not found"

I can't figure it out. thats the only file i need, and i can't get it to work. any suggestions?


Thanks

Keith



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[Don_HH2K]

Just a thought, since I've had this problem in 98SE many times. Point the dialog asking for the file to [tt]d:\win9x[/tt]; replace D with yoru CD drive letter if necessary. That will usually correct the problem that I have.

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[keith]

Thanks dluchini30.

That actually worked. I would've never guessed that it would work!


Keith



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[keith]

That installation went good, but it wasn't until later that I realized the network card is no good. I purchased
a new one, and I'm having problems with this one too. When I put it in, as usual the system recognizes the
new hardware. It installs, using the CD that came with the network card. But when I check the hardware
profile in the device manager, its got a yellow exclaimation mark, and the Driver Status says:

The NDIS.VXD,NTKERN.VXD device leaders for this driver could not load the device driver (code 2)


I am installing a D-Link DFE-538TX 10/100 Network Adapter

It is brand new


Thanks
Keith




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[Don_HH2K]

Just a thought, but D-Link's website might have updated device drivers for your network card. I don't see why the CD wouldn't have the appropriate drivers, but you might have a specific occurence in which something conflicts with another system setting.

Or, if you haven't tried already, try removing the adapter from Device Manager, then restart your computer, and Windows will attempt to reinstall the drivers.

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[keith]

Thanks for your reply. I have already tried restarting and letting windows find it on its own. I also went into thje properties and tried "Update driver" but the drivers still aren't there. How do i get an update at the D-Link website when i need the network card to get on the net? Can i download it to my XP machine and brun it to tranfer it over?
Keith

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[Don_HH2K]

How do i get an update at the D-Link website when i need the network card to get on the net? Can i download it to my XP machine and brun it to tranfer it over?
Keith

Yes, you can burn the driver to a CD, although you should be able to fit it on to a floppy, since drivers are rarely over a few hundred kilobytes in size, unless they have those big bloated utility installers to go along with them.

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[keith]

i went to the website, but i just can't seem to find an update for my networking card. Could i just not be seeing it? thanks

http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=122


keith

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[keith]

Well, i found a driver, but nits for the DFE-530TX+ , not the DFE 538 TX I can't find mine in the list. will this work?

http://www.dlink.com/products/support.a ... =0#drivers

Keith

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[Don_HH2K]

I wouldn't take any chances. But, you never know. After all, I'm using Windows NT 4 Workstation sound drivers for a NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV sound card on Windows Server 2003 with a NeoMagic MagicWave 3DX, and they work fine after some tweaking (interesting enough, the blue screen of death DOES exist in NT!). I would reccomend that you find drivers that were actually made specifically for the card, just in case. But, in some cases, generic drivers will work as well.

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