networking K7S5A motherboard

[strawshack]

I installed the mb with Athlon 1900 and 512Mb of ddr. It went very well, but be VERY careful of traces on underside of mb when positioning for screwing down...they are VERY fragile. Had to reload W2k on top of existing as repair facility did not make all the necessary changes in going from old Intel PIII chip and outdated mb.

However, I cannot get the on-board NIC to work. The software seems to install ok, and a system check says the NIC has no conflicts, but my other computer and this new mb cannot see each other on the workgroup. Anybody have any ideas??
Thanks very much.
Jack

[BipolarBill]

Ping. Ping each PC from the other and from themselves with:

PING LOCALHOST

or

PING 127.0.0.1

If this works, it's your network setup that's bogus. Could you draw out your setup for us?

[strawshack]

:) Thanks very much BipolarBill, I did ping each node and checked the local status with ipconfig. The problem seemed to be that the ip addresses automatically chosen by the install software was too different. At any rate, when I entered an ip address that was different only after the final period, the same subnet mask poped up and I was sure that it would now work. Sure enough, when I pinged from the other computer it worked. I still don't know why the original ip address didn't work, but that is a learning session for another day, I guess. Thanks again.
Jack

[BipolarBill]

As I've said b4, I do more work by accident than most do on purpose! :p

Congrats.