I *think* from your description that you are using
two of the *same* card, but it's not clear...

I have found that unless the NIC driver is SPECIFICALLY
written to allow multiple instances of itself to run, and not crap
on itself in the process, you will never get them to work together
reliably.

My solution is to always use two different types of NIC on
multi-homed systems.

There may be cards out there that have drivers that will work
for two of the same kind, but I don't have time to find out which
ones they are so just went with the above.

"melted aluminum" <melted aluminum@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> This is odd. I was trying to add a second lan card to my pc but winXP will
> not show it. If I add the hardware and driver manually it will show up in
> device manager but it says "unable to start this device"(code 10). It has
> been tried in 2 different pci slots with same results. The card powers up
> because the green light is on when I plug in a net cable. 2 Realtek
> cards(8139) and a Netgear FA311 same results.
>
> I don't think I am out of resources, I only have a sound card and the
> onboard devices which are USB, FW, and GLAN. Plus SATA and IDE
> controllers(onboard).
>
> Soyo KT880 dragon2 v2, rad 9700pro, 2 gig ddr, XP3000+, Creative SBaudigy2
> ZS, 4 HD's, cdrw and dvdrw.