Now the RTL8139 network card use is very common, and the smart and its work system is to force the workstation to make the model network card, but sometimes the network card is not so observed, often friends calling: His network card installation start There is no reflection after the chip, and there is no reflection according to Shift F10. Why? Please rest assured that the NIC is not bad. The reason is that the Bootrom interface of the network card is not activated. Generally, there will be a floppy disk when we buy a network card. In addition to the driver, there are more important stuff, which is the network card configuration program. Through this program we can set directly to the network cards, and this parameter setting is "hard", set the save information, which will be written to the NIC memory chip, not the disk carrier. That is, after setting saving, the NIC is installed on the machine, and the network card will work according to the parameters in the memory, and if you want to change the setup program that must be used.
Taking the TP-Link 8139c boxed network card of my personal use as an example, RSET8139.exe in the NIC drive is its setup program, it must be running in the DOS environment, the motherboard is best to install only one network card, C: / RSET8139 Enter the program main interface Press space to enter, as shown below:
main menu:
First item: Show current parameter information for network card
Second term: set network card parameters
Third item: Run the diagnostics
Article 4: Exit the program.
You can select the first item. After entering the program, the current information is listed, and the list reflects the ID number of the NIC, the transmission speed, the transmission mode, the input output address, the interrupt value, the bootrom (start-up chip), etc. (as follows Figure)
Return to the main menu, enter the second menu to move the light strip, list the parameters allowed to configure, move to bootromsize Enter, pop-up, can choose Disable bootrom. If you choose Enable bootRom it will pop up window prompt You choose the capacity of the bootrom to use, you can choose 32K / 64K like some multi-boot chip or the bootrom in the imitation end card, no choice of 128K, the carriage return is determined (as shown below),
Returns the main menu, interested in running the "diagnostic test" on the network cable. No abnormality can exit "save" and return to DOS.
In fact, not only the 8139 network card, almost all the NIC has its own setup program, and the settings that different models can modify the same, such as the early NE2000 network card, we can even force the interrupt, address, PNP of the network card. / Mode, etc., interested friends can test this for this, there will be many cases of harvesting, and if they cannot communicate, they can't find north in Win98, and it is better to enter this adjustment. Hage Net Card ID Number:
Mingzhi and its work systems, must be required to use the 8139 network card, and the top six digits of the network card must also be 00E04c. In fact, the former 8139 network card ID is 00E04C, but if you can't encounter one The batch troops, what is the 00E04D 00E05C, if you are proficient in the RPLCMD command, it is difficult to don't fall, but I am afraid that some famous wisdom is hard and not eating soft, I have to force us to move, pass PG8139 package You can modify the ID of the NIC ID, and it also requires running in DOS: (as shown below)
