Problem installing new network card

[lithium112]

Hi,

I recently purchased a new network card and have had some trouble installing it on my system. It's a D-Link DGE-350T Gigabit PCI adapter. Every time I try to substitute my current network card with the new one, this results in a hardware lockup making the system unable to boot Windows. It leaves some nonsensical message regarding a media failure. These symptoms are experienced regardless of which PCI slot I put my card into.

I actually have two computers and I bought two of the same network card. The same problem persisted when I tried all sorts of combinations of cards and computers.

If anyone can shed some light on the issue, that would be appreciated. Also let me know if you need more details about the problem.

[Tripredacus]

It sounds like the computer is attempting a network boot as it's first device instead of the hard drive. Do you have a network cable plugged into it? Also when it boots, see if it tells you what to press to configure the device. For example, some Network Boot Loaders have you press SHIFT + F10 to configure the NIC. And with that you can select the boot order, which I believe the default should be PnP/Bev or something similar.