Help! My LAN card ate my Sound card :(

[Opticreep]

I'm at wit's end trying to fix my computer.

Ever since I installed an Ethernet card, my computer has not been able
to detect my soundcard. My first guess was that it's an IRQ conflict.
But the problem is, I can't verify this since the soundcard won't
even show up under "device manager".

I first tried moving around the Soundblaster Live card (and also the
LAN card) to different PCI slots. Once in a while, I'll find a
combination such that the computer would detect them both.
Unfortunately, this only lasts a short while... as in the next time I
reboot, the soundcard vanishes again.

This occurs for both WinXP and WinME, since I have a dual-boot system.

I vaguely suspect this problem has something to do with drivers from
my old USB DSL Modem. That damn thing installed an "Efficient
Networks Virtual Miniport" driver on the both operating systems of my
computer. Whenever I try to uninstall that damn virtual miniport, I
get an error message saying that the OS requires it for boot-up. It
won't even uninstall under safe mode.

Anyway, does anybody have a suggestion on why my LAN card is causing
my PC to ignore my sound card? Any idea how to remove that virtual
miniport? I'm this ---><--- close to giving up, formatting the drive,
and reinstalling WinXP for the umpteenth time.

 

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[hushia]

I'm at wit's end trying to fix my computer.

Ever since I installed an Ethernet card, my computer has not been able
to detect my soundcard. My first guess was that it's an IRQ conflict.
But the problem is, I can't verify this since the soundcard won't
even show up under "device manager".

I first tried moving around the Soundblaster Live card (and also the
LAN card) to different PCI slots. Once in a while, I'll find a
combination such that the computer would detect them both.
Unfortunately, this only lasts a short while... as in the next time I
reboot, the soundcard vanishes again.

This occurs for both WinXP and WinME, since I have a dual-boot system.

I vaguely suspect this problem has something to do with drivers from
my old USB DSL Modem. That damn thing installed an "Efficient
Networks Virtual Miniport" driver on the both operating systems of my
computer. Whenever I try to uninstall that damn virtual miniport, I
get an error message saying that the OS requires it for boot-up. It
won't even uninstall under safe mode.

Anyway, does anybody have a suggestion on why my LAN card is causing
my PC to ignore my sound card? Any idea how to remove that virtual
miniport? I'm this ---><--- close to giving up, formatting the drive,
and reinstalling WinXP for the umpteenth time.

What happens when you disable PnP in your bios?

 

[Opticreep]

What happens when you disable PnP in your bios?

Nothing, unfortunately. It looks like I may have to reinstall Windows XP... again.

 

[Steve C. Ray]

Be sure that neither of the cards is installed in the PCI slot next to the
AGP slot. This PCI slot and the AGP slot share the bus , you never want to
have a PCI card installed there.

 

[relic]

Be sure that neither of the cards is installed in the PCI slot next
to the AGP slot. This PCI slot and the AGP slot share the bus , you
never want to have a PCI card installed there.

On some very old motherboards. Most new ones don't.