need your expertise on NIC cards.

[ENVY]

OK,Have you seen a nic card cause win95 to hang on shutdown or reboot?I have seen this problem in the past on a variety of nic cards,something about the card waiting for a response from the the network?In the past,the way that I fixed this was to blow away all the network settings including the nic card and then start from scratch.This usually cleared up the problem.
The new job that I am at now installs network systems,they have never encountered this problem.(imagine that!)
Now they have 4 machines that are hanging on a new network.My question is what exactly causes this and what if anything can you do besides blowing everything away?Is this just an improper setting?Is it a driver issue?Any help or suggestion would be greatly appreciated! I know that I could fix this problem by starting from scratch,but my aim is to prevent this from happening in the field.Our customers get a little upset when you build them 10 new machines and a server then set up their network and 4 of the 10 will not even reboot.THANKS GUYS AND GALS
ENVY

[sourjon]

Envy: I have a win95B pII-350 with a Netgear FA310TX that has the same problem. I have it and two NT machines on a small lan at home. It was never a problem before the NIC card. I have been waiting for W98SE because I figured a fresh reinstall was the solution.This machine is about two years old and I do a lot of installing of programs and utilities and I figure something got messed up along the way.Lord knows I have tried everything else via settings|protocols|tweaks of one kind or another. Is that what you mean by blowing everything away? I am hoping this cures the painfully slow shut down even when it does manage to complete. No exageration 60-100 seconds! I am going to do the transplant this weekend. Post bach if you discover the cure or explanation. I would be interested to know.

[BBA]

OK, 2 things cause this:

1. DHCP (TCP/IP protocol), if the card is looking for a DHCP server and can't find it, it will hang the OS. To determine this, set the machine IP to static and see if it still hangs.

2. Active polling protocols! Netbeui is bad about it, it also slows down all other protocols because if it doesnt find a server it continously polls (sends useless data)

The resolution is to ensure the DHCP server is up and running if you use DHCP and eliminate all unneccessary protocols. TCP/IP is usually the only required protocol in a home network that connects to the internet.

This question would be better only posted in the Network forum heading.

BBA

[Jin Vitas]

ENVY what I would do is go into safe mode with no network support.. and then check the resource conflict on the NIC.

[SysOpt]

doh

[This message has been edited by SysOpt (edited 01-22-2000).]