Thanks Chris - You da man!

Hey, i got another question fer ya. (since you're so good at these things). How do you install a non-PnP NIC in a desktop PC? In that book i quoted above, the author sort of makes it confusing:

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...with legacy NICs, the card first needs to be configured using its setup program, which usually means first booting to Safe Mode Command Prompt Only (in Windows 9x) to run the configuration program that came with the NIC. After setting up the NIC's I/O address, IRQ, and so on, you restart Windows, install the NIC's driver, and manually set the system resources for the NIC in the Device Manager."
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That last part of the sentence is what confuses me. If you've already set up the I/O & IRQ in safe mode, why would you need to go through the Device Mangler to "...set the system resources" ??? The system resources ARE the I/O address and IRQ and so forth. Is he just repeating himself??


And then it just gets even worse. In the immediate paragraph that follows, he says:


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After you've installed the card, you can then install the drivers manually. Click the Add New Harware icon in the Control Panel. Although Windws finds a legacy card automatically, it's usually faster to do the install manually....

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He just get done explaining how you should configure the card in safe mode using the setup program that comes w/ the NIC and then he adds that last paragraph. Is he merely giving an alternative method to the safe mode first mentioned?

Can someone please make this less muddy? x(