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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:00:10 +0000
From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] hang when booting from the orig boot floppy
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Michael Joosten wrote:
> BTW, the same (or a very similar situation) happened to me also with a
> 3C509 when I changed computers. As it turned out, the PnP stuff was
> still enabled on the NIC. Using the 3COM setup diskettes (pnpdisable.bat
> or such) cured this and I could again boot from disk.
> Might be added as hint to the FAQ or install docs.

Absolutely.  A 3C509 can even be rendered inoperable by a PnP
OS such as Windows 9x (long story).  It is best when installing
a new 3C509 to immediately run PNPDSABL.BAT to keep PnP from
causing a problem for that card.