phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (06/07/89)
I am planning to run the IBM NETWATCH program (part of IBM's TCP/IP product) so I got one of the ONLY TWO ethernet cards it supports (UB's PC/NIC) and IBM's most powerful machine that still has an AT bus (PS/2-30/286). Here's the problem I run into. When I boot from the hard disk (MS-DOS versions 3.3 and 4.0 have been tried) any attempt to access the ethernet card with any program will result in the machine locking up with the screen showing: 110 ????? and I have to power off to fix it. Also, when I CNTL-ALT-DEL to reboot, it also locks up then too. If I boot from the floppy drive things work OK (both versions of MS-DOS). Does anyone know anything about the UB PC/NIC card that would make it sensitive to the disk the machine was booted from, or about the PS/2-30/286 that would make the machine be in a different state such that a hardware error would appear to happen (or actually happen) just as a result of being boot from the hard disk? Does anyone know what the 110 error code really means? --Phil howard-- <phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> --Phil howard-- <phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>