rec.autos.simulators

Hello everyone, especially those most esteemed owners of Rendition cards
(from whom I'm seeking a bit of advice...!)

As the proud owner of a Rendition card recently added alongside my trusty
3dFX, I swapped it into my system to replace my Lightspeed 128. All runs
fine and playing ICR2-3D again is manna from heaven. The problem came when
I took my system unit from home into the office for a little internet Quake
over the ethernet connect.

My network card was installed but disabled in the profiles, and when I
tried to enable it I suddenly found that I couldn't "Add" anything. I tried
to install TCP/IP, but when I got to the screen where you select
"Microsoft" and "TCP/IP" instead of installing the files when I clicked OK,
it dropped me back a stage to where I should select "Client", "Protocol"
etc - this loop goes on forever, I choose TCP/IP and get dropped back a
stage. I deleted the network adaptor and tried again - same thing when I
tried to install the NIC, in fact same thing now when I try to install
anything. I reinstalled the ET6000 and all is fine, but I wanna keep the
Rendition (NASCAR and ICR2-3D ya know!).

Any ideas what the problem is? Anyone befallen the same fate? My system
details are...

ASUS P55T2P4 V3.1 with latest BIOS (0210?)

64Mb EDO-DRAM
Orchid Righteous 3dFX / Glide 2.31 and Righteous 2.0 drivers
Intergraph Reactor with latest BIOS and drivers as of two weeks ago
Win95 OSR2 & DirectX3a
ISA AWE32 non-PnP
SMC PCI network card (Digital 21040 based)
Two 3.2Gb hard disks, master and slave on primary channel using Intel's
bus-mastering drivers.

From checking BIOS and System settings there are no IRQ, memory or other
conflicts as far as I can see. It's not a big deal if it doesn't work as
there are other systems in the office, I just hate when there's something
about my system I don't understand.

Any advice accepted with thanks (no, I've tried clocking rhe CPU back to
200 and even 166...!).

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Cheers!
John (SRN-Europe)
(Remove "NOSPAM" from address before replying...)

I know you said you checked for conflict, but you need to verify that
your NIC and video card aren't both using the same IRQ. I had a
similar problem when I installed my video card. My NIC was using IRQ
11. My Intense3d also wanted IRQ 11. I manually changed my NIC to 9
and all was fine.

good luck,
Mike

On Thu, 05 Jun 1997 07:54:14 GMT, "John Wallace"

I don't know your problem,. but I can give you a guess.

In theory, more than one PCI video card should be able to run on a system
at the same time as long as only one VGA controller is turned on.  You
cannot turn off VGA on the Intergraph card.  Turn off your motherboard VGA
and the Righteous 3D's VGA.  Sometimes two PCI video cards get along fine,
sometimes they don't.  Intergraph tech support alluded that their card was
not a friendly card.

One of the guys on my team has both cards.  If he can get it to work, I
will buy a Righteous 3-D today.....

-Paul