Microsoft KB Archive/107347

= Network Card Drivers That Must Load in Conventional Memory =

Article ID: 107347

Article Last Modified on 9/26/1999

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11

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This article was previously published under Q107347



SUMMARY
To operate correctly, certain network card drivers require that you load them into conventional memory. These cards all use bus-mastering direct memory access (DMA) for transferring data, which prevents the drivers from being loaded into the upper memory blocks (UMBs).

Below is a list of these network adapters and the corresponding driver names.   Network card                                Driver name ---

Advanced Micro Devices AM2100/AM1500T       AM2100.DOS DLINK DE500 VLB                              DE500.DOS Exos 105                                    AM2100.DOS Novell/Anthem NE1500T                       AM2100.DOS Novell/Anthem NE2100                        AM2100.DOS Zenith Data Systems Z-Note                  I82593.DOS For testing, load the network drivers into conventional memory by replacing the NET START line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT with the following line:

net start /nohi

Additional query words: 3.11

Keywords: KB107347

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