Problems installing D-Link ethernet

[Guest]

My PC currently runs Windows XP Professional version 2002 SP2. I am trying to
install a D-Link fast ethernet adapter (DFE-528TX) everything went fine
following the steps on the quick installation guide but at the end the guide
says 'you have a successful installation when "D-Link DFE-528TX" appears
under 'Network adapters' with no errors.
My PC is currently showing the following error 'Code 10' this device cannot
start' , eventhough the drivers are up to date, D-Link support informs me
that this means the settings on my PC are preventing the device from
starting. Is this true and if so how can I solve this issue?

 

[Bill Sanderson MVP]

This forum is for the support of a software product--Windows Defender.
Given that, we may not know much about the issue you are posting.

If this were my machine, I would look at other hardware devices which I
could disable either temporarily or permanently, to see whether the
resources needed by this nic might be freed.

msinfo32 (use help to search on this key) may be helpful---it can display
some conflicts.

You might, for example, disable, in device manager, a parallel printer port
and or serial ports--things that you don't use continually--or, perhaps, at
all. See if that allows the device to install and start properly, then
consider what you can do without or with.

Likely conflicts involve either IRQ's or areas of ram. Of the two, I think
ram areas is the more likely--IRQ's are not usually scarce except on older
hardware.

You really would be better off in a generic XP hardware related group with
this question, though!