Thanks all for help to upgrade

[luke]

All seems to work on the upgrade, but with the 2 old CDdrives and 2 floppies it is still crowded in there, despite the roomier new box from the municibal dump.

Now Networking again.
I managed before the XP to 98, when all said forget it get another XP, now that I have two XPs can I get networking? NO.

Please do'nt say now "get another Asus".

The new Asus installs various LAN options, Nvidia, Marvel, Yougon etc adaptors, and in a strange way networks the old XP PC mobo which has no LAN support but has an ethernet card fitted.
This networking, still with the old crossover cable
a) is slower than the one achieved on XP to 98 &
b) With broadband installed on the Asus, the old PC

[Ivan]

Network drivers for the A8N are in the nVidia driver package. The Marvell software is only needed for the remote cable tester readout.

Don't know which version you have exactly (as the dual one could have one chip channel and one from the nforce)

[luke]

Where is the nVidia driver package? in the Asus CDdrive? I run all that lot and "32bit PCI 10/100M Ethernet Adapter"  would have been found by the install drivers auto search.

At the moment the network works with driver:
"Marvell Yukon 88E 8001 / 8003 / 8010 pci Gigabit"

the version of what in your phrase:
"....which version you have exactly (as the dual one could have one chip channel and one from the nforce)...."

The Asus CD says:
Nvidia nForce4 series, chipset support CD Rev.99.03
and an M525 No.

[Ivan]

Board version: some have 2 LAN connectors

About the software: the LAN stuff should be in the main chipset driver (at least that worked for me)

[the_autopilot]

you can also download it from their website.

I recommend downloading them cause the ones on the cd are almost always outdated.

[luke]

I got the "Chipset_WinXP64_V665" but no way will it install.
How on earth do you do it?

Do I have to get the Bios as well:

By the way Belarc gives my Mboard as:-
Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. A8N-SLI DELUXE 1.XX
Serial Number: 123456789000
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE ACPI BIOS Revision 1006 03/03/2005

Also is my mem installed OK as Belark shows?
Slot 'A0' has 512 MB
Slot 'A1' is Empty
Slot 'A2' has 512 MB
Slot 'A3' is Empty

Thanx

[Ivan]

Looks like a decent dual channel setup (but the 4 'channel A' things are a bit weird to me)

BIOS is recent enough

What is the error message?

[luke]

Ivan,
no error message involved, just that I cannot network proper with broadband dialing the two XPs together, like I did on XP to 98.

The Asus PC does not find the driver for this net adapter I fitted"32bit PCI 10/100M Ethernet Adapter", so i followde your advice to get drivers from Asus, but this "Chipset_WinXP64_V665" I got will not unzip as all the others do.

Do you know anything about this?

See if you can make senes of what I wrote previously.      thnx     luke

[Ivan]

I got a 'nVidia nforce networking controller' for the LAN stuff (same board but with 1 instead of 2 connectors). That is one, the other one should be either the marvell or the youngon

[richardd43]

I have 2 XP puters that networked great until a year ago then they quit. No matter what I did I could not get them to network.

Two weeks ago I looked at the network and it was working. I have no idea what changed or why it is now working.

[Ivan]

@Luke: get the drivers from the nVidia site (and don't install the IDE part) These should work

[luke]

Ivan,
It is really a mistery, everybody advised that networking XP & 98 was not on, and yet somehow it worked, transfer files and ICS too.

Just got the Nvidia you said & installed them in directory.

Went to Local Area Connection to update the
"NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller" ethernet driver , but it said could not find a better match than what it has.
Was this the right place I went to update?         luke

PS. Richard, what setup did you have, did you use
1. a crossover cable with PCI ethernet cards, or
2. the Motherboards LAN, or
3. was it Routers etc. ?

Now I am getting only Asus to old XP PC and only with the Asus LAN + a card in the old XP PC.               luke

[Ivan]

LAN card part usually has less updates compared to the chipset part... nothing wrong with that.

And about your hardware choice: my systems have Asus motherboard, and if there is no onboard LAN, i put in an Intel Pro/100 card (works out of the box)... Usually i get these from the discount box for about 7-10 euros each (shop price is 15 euros for OEM).

[congo]

Luke,

The drivers that came with the mainboard on the disk include the ethernet driver (onboard LAN) and you should have installed when you first got windows up and running along with all the other chipset drivers.

The LAN driver should never need to be updated, because either the LAN works with the drivers or it won't, there isn't any optimising a new driver will accomplish, unlike video drivers.

You then need to identify which network adapters you are dealing with, no good setting up the marvel with drivers and settings if your cable is in another adapter  ;)

Make sure that you refer to those adapters you are using when making settings , assigning IP's, giving FW permissions etc.

You are going to have to re-learn all the stuff you did before and then get the connection working properly again.

It doesnt make a speck of difference whether it's win98 or XP on the second PC with ICS. The only rule is that the XP (now either one of your PC's) must be the one with the internet connection, and since you dumped 98, that rule no longer applies.

[luke]

The Invidia drivers I tried to install were on the Asus XP.

Should they be installed also on the other old (non Asus, Jetaway mobo) XP?

The ethernet card was (