I was always using 2 different manufacterers cards. 1 VIA onboard and either
a Realtek or Netgear.

I got this to function but with a different Mobo. An NForce2 board. Set the
IP's manually on the cards and they functioned for their respective networks.
Problem was one was always slow. The Gigabit adapter went to the file server
and the 100mbs went to the internet. The internet was extremely
slow.......9KB/s downloading Shockwave and Flash instead of 500K. Pages were
loading real slow.

So next question is "why the slow speed on one nic?" The GBit to fileserver
was fine.

"V Green" wrote:

> 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
> message news:0687A942-DFEB-4BFE-8BBF-6C09261C0855@microsoft.com...
> > 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.
>
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