Asus A7V133 and 3COM 3C905C-TXM

Does anyone here has any problem in getting the 3COM 3C905C-TX based NIC card to work with the Asus A7V133 Rev1.05? Windows 98SE or Me has no problem recognizing or installing the correct drivers for it, and it does not show any conflicts in the Device Manager; but no matter what I tried, I could not get it to talk to the Linksys Cable/DSL router or to see the other system that's also connected to the Linksys. The same NIC worked perfectly fine with the old ASUS P55T2P4 system. I have also tried another 3COM 3C905C-TXM card that works fine on a P3 system.

Things I have tried so far... assigned it a different non shared IRQ; changed the I/O address; plugged it into another PCI slot; did a fresh install of Windows Me from Windows98SE; using the drivers from the ASUS CD rather then the one downloaded from 3COM; used another non PCI videocard; changed the motherboard PCI 3volt settings; used another CAT5 cable; switched the BIOS to Plug and Play OS. Also tried DHCP rather then assigning it a static IP. I know the card works as I can ping the IP if assigned a static one.

I haven't tried connecting the NIC directly to the DSL modem, but I don't think this will make any difference. I think what I'll try next is set the NIC resources setting in the Device Manager to the same as the working computer with the same NIC.

Motherboard is revision 1.05 using BIOS rev. 1004

Thanks for any suggestions here.

-Votinh

Yeah,good old Byte Merge. Nearly drove me mad before I figured it out... What the heck is it anyway?