Lossing Network when adding 1394 card

[PA]

I have a PC running XP with SP1 on a home network through
a Linksys router. I want to start capturing Digital Video
through a 1394 Firewire card but when I install the
Adaptec Duo Connect USB/Firewire card, on start-up XP also
sets up the 1394 as a network connection and I lose my
Ethernet card connections.

 

[XPUSER]

I have a PC running XP with SP1 on a home network through
a Linksys router. I want to start capturing Digital Video
through a 1394 Firewire card but when I install the
Adaptec Duo Connect USB/Firewire card, on start-up XP also
sets up the 1394 as a network connection and I lose my
Ethernet card connections.

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It is normal for XP to show the 1394 port as a Network Adapter.
That is not the problem.
You do not mention anything about the computer specs.
I think you probably need a BIOS update and to then run a
Repair Install of XP. If your XP CD does not include SP1,
you should uninstall SP1 before the Repair Install and then
SP1 would have to be re-installed and all XP critical updates
will need to be re-installed also.
You can check out your current BIOS Version / Date in
System Information.
Start > Run > winmsd <Enter>
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[Guest]

PC Spec. 1.8 Mhz P4, 640MB PC133Ram, nVida GeForce MX440
I may have not stated my issue very well; I do not want XP
to automatically set-up the 1394 card as a network
adapter. When it does I no longer have connectivity
through my Ethernet card to my network. I tried renaming
the net1394.inf and net1394.pnf network drivers so they
would not load on the automatic set-up but my PC came with
all the software on the hard drive in a backup file, so I
think on the automatic set-up when it does not find the
drivers for networking it then goes to the backup
directory and finds them. Can I disable the auto-set up of
hardware and just manually set it up or is there a better
solution?