NIC installation Questions

[Atmosphere]

I just bought a d-Link DFE-540TX+ Ethernet Card.

And I was looking at the manual and I installed the Card before I did the Driver. And just about at the End of it. It said not to install it before the Card. which is just stupid for adding that at the end.
So I installed the NIC then the Driver will this mess any thing up?

[HAL9000]

???? That's the way I've always done it, install the hardware, let windows detect it, give it the driver, reboot and done.

[Atmosphere]

hmm just wondering cuz d-link said install the Driver then the NIC. i thought that was Weird.

Thx for replying

[edge345]

The reason for that is to have the card drivers already on the computers Operating System so it can install the card drivers automaticly.... (PNP)

Windows 98 and me had trouble setting up a lot of PNP cards,A lot of times the OP would install the realtec drivers whitch would work ok in most cases....

WIN-XP has great PNP compared to other Windows Operating systems....

[Tuf]

I have put in a bunch of those DLinks and I always do it the way you did. I haven't had any problems. I guess I better read the instructions next time.

[edge345]

Thanks for Agreeing with me TUF.
Also most scanner software sugests that you install the drivers before plugging in the hardware.... (smiling)

Good Luck with the nic troble shooting Atmosphere.

[LawyerRon]

The way you did it is fine. I just built a system with that same Dlink NIC and Windows XP; XP already had the driver and installed the NIC. It didn't even use the Dlink disk.

[Confused]

That't the great thing about my way. Buy white box, OEM, off ebay, used and I don't have instructions to mess my mind up.
Chas