Hi All,

I tried moving the 3c905B-TX NIC from PCI slot 1 (next to the Matrox G450 AGP card) to slot 2 (that previously held the SoundBlaster Live Value) and the SB to slot 3. No change - it still locked up under DOS VGA graphics. I moved the SB to PCI slot 6, no change. I moved the NIC to slot 4 and the SB to slot 2, no change.

I removed the SB, no change. So it seemed to be something with the NIC.

I just installed 3com's latest 3c905B driver and the problem seems to be gone. Yay! :-) I'm now using ver 4.31.0.0 dated 8/13/02 (downloaded [link|ftp://ftp.3com.com/pub/nic/3c90x/3c90x1.exe|here]). I was previously using the 3c905B driver that came with Win2k.

As on every other PC with Win2K that I've looked at, the video, NIC and sound are sharing IRQ11. And the USB stuff still seems to work.

Thanks for the help.

Cheers,
Scott.