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    Adapter Malfunction

    We have a few Dell Dimension 4100's with Windows 2000 Pro running Alpha 4 Multi-User Version 2.1 successfully. We recently purchased more Dell Dimensions and Alpha 4 is giving us the following error on every machine.

    LAN Error: Adapter Malfunction

    It's looking like a hardware or memory problem. Does anyone have a fix for this. The company won't ditch the version of Alpha4 they are on.

    Thanks,

    Bill

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    RE: Adapter Malfunction

    Bill:

    Try a search "Adapter malfunction" [and include the quotes] Others are having the same problem - maybe you all can work it out together.

    Michael Champion, another poster to this board may have an answer as well. He may or may not help you as he says that he doesn't wish to share ALL of his secrets.

    Ken

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      #3
      RE: Adapter Malfunction

      Here is an up date on the Windows 2000 Adapter Malfunction problem I and few other have been having. My problem may be unique being they way we setup machines. We use sysprep and Ghost to clone pc's. I setup a Win2K pc from scratch and A4 works great. I sysprep the machine and then clone it. When I go to a new pc and load the image and boot for the first time, Windows 2000 detects the NIC card in the machine adds a new additional card and removes the original, but the original NIC card settings are still in the registry. If you look in device manager, it show one NIC card as 3COM etc...etc..#2. Everything works great, but A4. A4 seems to be somehow looking for that original NIC.

      I decided to install Win2K on a new pc from scratch. Once I completed this I copied over A4 and it worked great. I added a second NIC (same type card) and Win2K detected it just fine. Tried A4 and it still works great. Now, if you remove the original card, Windows and Windows app still work great, but A4 now says adapter malfunction. Somewhere in the registry it tells A4 to use the original card and not the new one.

      I'm now on the hunt to find out how to tell A4 not to use the card that is not there. I have deleted registry keys and such for the original card and it still errors out.

      If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them. :-)

      Bill

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        #4
        RE: Adapter Malfunction

        Bill:

        S M A S H I N G L Y G O O D detective work. What a great sharing effort.

        Right On!!

        Ken

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          #5
          RE: Adapter Malfunction

          Just to have some fun, I left both cards in now. When I plug my network cable to the first card, a4 works great. If I plug my network cable in the second card, a4 doesn't work. Other apps work ok in both cases.

          I have seen other messages in microsoft's newsgroups with users having problems when they have two nic's in the system and then take one out. Win2k still things the original nic is in there.

          There has got to be a way to have a4 bind to the 2nd nic.

          Still hackin at it...

          bill

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            #6
            RE: Adapter Malfunction

            Figured it out!

            There was a ghost network card in the system. This happens when you replace a network card with another that may be slightly different. The original card doesn't get removed or uninstalled from the registry and Alpha4 try's to communicate with it instead of the adapter that is in there.

            I found a TechNet Article Q241257 that explains that the device manager doesn't show some hidden devices that are installed but not in the computer like a ghost network card. You can view these by typing the following commands in a command prompt window.

            set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
            cdwinntsystem32
            start devmgmt.msc

            This will open the Device Manager. Click on the View Menu and choose Show hidden devices. Go down to the Network Adapter and expand. You should see the ghost Network adapter. Uninstall that adapter and the current adapter. Then reboot. Win2K will detect the current adapter and Alpha4 will not give you the Adapter Malfunction.

            Bill

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              RE: Adapter Malfunction

              Bill:

              GREAT to share this as well as the documentation where you found it. What a piece of detective work that can help us all!!!

              Ken

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                #8
                RE: Adapter Malfunction

                I read your solution with great interest and anticipation.

                I have the same problem. Single-user. I've been porting my A4V3 app from DOS to Win 3.1 to 95 to 98. No problems. Now, after copying all the files to a new Win 2000 box, I get the "LAN Error: Adapter malfunction" message.

                I tried all your suggestions. I was surprised to see that I too had a ghost NIC driver. I did as you instructed, and the ghost driver went away. Unfortunately, my problem remains.

                Have you any other thoughts on this? Does anyone else have a clue? This is serious: If I can't resolve the problem, I'll have to scrub the hard drive and reload 98. That would be a shame.

                If I manage to get past this one, I still have to get my app running in full screen. I followed the postings on that topic, but, again, without success.

                David

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                  #9
                  RE: Adapter Malfunction

                  After you removed the phantom NIC (right click uninstall in device manager), did you also uninstall the other NIC. You need to remove both and let the computer plug and play the good NIC. Then NTVDM or whatever binds to the correct card.
                  One one machine I even went as far as removing the phantom NIC, the good NIC and all protcol's. After a reboot installed the protocols. Since then though, I have found that I don't need to uninstall the protocols.


                  Bill

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