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Every time I install a NIC, my box seems to complete POST but does not boot to OS. When I remove the NIC everything works fine. The box is a Packard Bell original Pentium running Phoenis BIOS v 4.04. I have removed all extension cards. At one point I did get an error message (booting to DOS and hot docking the NIC) that there was a base address I/O error. I have 3 PCI slots. I have been installing the card in the center PCI slot to stay away from shared slots. I have found an upgrade for the BIOS from Packard Bell but have not installed it because they have yet to tell me what it does. The box is now a FreeBSD machine. Any help would be very much appreciated.
Is your device manager system tab saying anything about a bad PCI bus driver?? - Instead of touching the BIOS which there will not be much support for due to the elimination of the NEC Packard Bell business unit, I'd look for an update to the PCI bus driver first to see if that will resolve your issue.
If you go the BIOS route, plan on a 60% chance on going out to buy a new motherboard and case to use your peripherals on. Not a bad plan to begin with considering the PB line is dead and the support line will die a horrible death despite NEC's promise to try to keep it up.
I am not sure what you are talking about concerning the device manager. Please explain. I have done some more investigating. When I boot FreeBSD I get the following messages:
Probing for devices on pci bus 0
chip0:<VLSI 82C592 Host to PCI Bridge> rev 0x01 on pci0.0.0
chip1:<VLSI 82C593 PCI TO ISA BRIDGE> rev 0x01 on pci0.6.0
vga0:<CIRRUS LOGIC GD5430 SVGA CONTROLLER>rev 0x2d int a irq 255 on pci0.10.0
wdc0:<CMD 640B IDE> rev 0x02 int a irq 14 on pci0.13.0
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