After installation Via rhine III ethernet on 98se2me from time to time at start-up

system detect new device(network adapter).

Please ,how can I escape from this situation ?

Thanks !

Make sure it's properly plugged into the PCI slot. If it's an onboard it might be defective.

It is properly plugged into PCI slot. It hapend at start-up let say one a week.I answer

"Cancel" to escape a new installation ,and Restart to obtain a good network function.

Any idea ? Thanks!

Can you give the full specs of the machine you have this happening on? The solution i'm thinking of depends on what resources your BIOS assigns to the card.

Does this new device have a valid PCI ID? You can find out by running PCI32 from here.

If it does, install the driver.

If it doesn't, click Next until it fails to install. It will appear in Device Manager as an unknown device.

Edited July 25, 200818 yr by Marius '95

Thank you for"PCI 32" program test.Indeed it shows :

Subsystem ID 01061106:Unknown

System vendor1106h:VIA Techn. Inc

After driver reinstalling PCI 32 shows the same.

PCI ID consists of Vendor ID and Product ID (and some other, less important, IDs).

They are shown on the first 2 lines for each PCI device, like this:

Vendor 1011h Digital Equipment Corp (DEC)

Device 0009h DecChip 21140 Fast Ethernet Adapter

Command 0005h (I/O Access, BusMaster)

Status 0280h (Supports Back-To-Back Trans., Medium Timing)

...

...

If you installed the driver for that unknown device, did that fix your problem?

Edited July 27, 200818 yr by Marius '95

Thank you for replay Marius 95!

Test program PCI 32 shows that after reinstalling:

Vendor 1106h VIA Technologies Inc

Device 3106h VT6105 Rhine III Fast Ethernet Controller

.....

Revision 8Bh, Header Type 00h, Bus Latency Timer 20h

Minimum Bus Grant 03h, Maximum Bus Latency 08h

.....

Subsystem ID 01061106h Unknown

Subsystem Vendor 1106h VIA Technologies Inc

Address 0 is an I/O Port : 0000C400h

Address 1 is a Memory Address (anywhere in 0-4Gb) : DE000000h

System IRQ 11, INT# A

....

May by the card has a problem(equiped with VIA VT 6106L chip).The

driver is for all family vt6105/6106L/.Internet works well ,but I think

the problem is not fixed(sometimes new network device detected).

Any solution to solve/change this situation? Thank you!

Vendor 1106h VIA Technologies Inc

Device 3106h VT6105 Rhine III Fast Ethernet Controller

It looks OK...

sometimes new network device detected

I don't see the problem. Install the driver for it!

Thank you again Marius 95.

The driver was already installed,and works well till now(two weeks ).

I hope the problem was solved.