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drittz   11-13-2002 at 12:00:47 AM

Have recently upgraded my motherboard to an ECS - K7S5A 3.1 with Athlon XP 2000 processor. Since then have been unable to get my 3com 3c905b-tx NIC to function. I am running WIN XP Pro and when this logs in it recognises the new hardware but is unable to install the driver. Error displayed is No Data Available???? Have tried moving the NIC to different IDE slots and also tried installing the latest drivers in Device manager but the same error occurs. I also have a GeForce 4 TI 4200 attached just in case this is of any relevance. Does anyone know what this "No Data" error means and how to fix it?

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camieabz   11-13-2002 at 03:02:40 AM
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Tried installing the W2K drivers instead? Might work...

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drittz   11-13-2002 at 05:16:44 AM
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Thanks but no joy any other suggestions?

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btvillarin   11-13-2002 at 08:43:04 AM
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I wish I knew. From what I've heard, this motherboard has had its share of problems, so it might be that. I have this sound card, and Windows XP should support it right away.

The ECS K7S5A guide compiled from the forums at OCWorkBench might help ya out, too.

<A HREF="http://www.ocworkbench.com/2002/ecs/k7s5aguide/" target="_new">http://www.ocworkbench.com/2002/ecs/k7s5aguide/</A>

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upec   11-13-2002 at 03:00:28 PM
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In reply to

Have tried moving the NIC to different IDE slots

How do you intall a NIC to IDE slot?

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jlanka   11-13-2002 at 03:19:16 PM
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does it have an onboard NIC? If so, have you disabled it in the BIOS?

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

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  11-13-2002 at 04:00:55 PM
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yes those have SiS onboard LAN NICs.

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drittz   11-13-2002 at 11:13:24 PM
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Oopps meant to type PCI slots not IDE!!! The actual error reads The Data Is Invalid as well. Thanks everyone for your suggestions, unfortuneately my motherboard does not have an onboard NIC though. Any other ideas, will read that ocworkbench article as well.

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jihiggs   11-14-2002 at 02:00:49 AM
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have you downloaded the latest from 3com?

how do you shoot the devil in the back? what happens if you miss? -verbal

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drittz   11-14-2002 at 03:23:23 AM
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Yeah downloaded those and then pointed XP to this driver via device manager. Still comes up with error Data Is Invalid. I only downloaded disk 1 of the setup file will try and extract all disks to same folder and retry the install.

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jihiggs   11-14-2002 at 07:31:18 AM
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uninstall it from your computer, and restart. let plug and play find it, when it asks for drivers, point it to the ones you downloaded. you dont need the second disk.

how do you shoot the devil in the back? what happens if you miss? -verbal

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drittz   11-15-2002 at 02:29:12 AM
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Thanks for your suggestions everyone!!! All fixed!!! Fixed it by reinstalling the TCPIP protocol which for some reason didn't automatically install from WIN XP.

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jlanka   11-15-2002 at 09:46:19 AM
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good job. Re-installing IP fixes a lot of things. That should probably be a standard item in a troubleshooting FAQ.

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

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