I recently put in a new motherboard, Chaintech Apogee Deluxe 7VJL which
has an on-board LAN chip VIA6103 10/100Mbps or 1/10Mbps Home PNA 2.0.
The problem is, I can't get the LAN connection to work. If I enable it in
setup it is recognised by "New Hardware" (Windows 98SE)and I load the
drivers, but the system then crashes and I have to go through the whole
"Safe Mode" business and eventually disable the LAN connection in setup.
If I put my old network card (Realtek RTL8139) in one of the PCI slots and
load its drivers, all works well. Any thoughts?
One other thing - when I installed the board Windows did it's usual; fast
and furious "Searching for drivers, installing etc .." before I could get
it properly stopped and load in the Via 4-in-1 and audio, USB and Lan
drivers from CD. I'd like to remove all these and start over ... but I
don't want to reload Win98 because I have so many applications on it that
would have to be reloaded as well. How can I do this?
Many thanks for taking the time to read, and any who have answers.

goto: the device manager open the network adapter heading- highlite your
adapter -click properties -click drivers -click update -point to the drive
where the CD for your Motherboard is click OK. Windows seems to be loading a
driver it THINKS is correct, problably OLD. The realtech adapter has been
around awhile a windows has generic drivers for it.


HTH,
Joe


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> I recently put in a new motherboard, Chaintech Apogee Deluxe 7VJL which
> has an on-board LAN chip VIA6103 10/100Mbps or 1/10Mbps Home PNA 2.0.
> The problem is, I can't get the LAN connection to work. If I enable it in
> setup it is recognised by "New Hardware" (Windows 98SE)and I load the
> drivers, but the system then crashes and I have to go through the whole
> "Safe Mode" business and eventually disable the LAN connection in setup.
> If I put my old network card (Realtek RTL8139) in one of the PCI slots and
> load its drivers, all works well. Any thoughts?
> One other thing - when I installed the board Windows did it's usual; fast
> and furious "Searching for drivers, installing etc .." before I could get
> it properly stopped and load in the Via 4-in-1 and audio, USB and Lan
> drivers from CD. I'd like to remove all these and start over ... but I
> don't want to reload Win98 because I have so many applications on it that
> would have to be reloaded as well. How can I do this?
> Many thanks for taking the time to read, and any who have answers.
>
>
>