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November 8th, 2003 14:00
Ethernet adapter Code 12 memory range resource problems
I cannot get my Network Card in my Inspiron 8100 Win ME to work. I am now on the 3rd card that Dell has sent me. It is an Actiontech 82559-based MiniPCI combo card.
I have reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled WinME countless times with Dell phone support.
In the Device Manager, there are no other conflicting devices.
The network adapter's driver is updated (hardware version 008).
Under device status, it consistently gives me:
"The device cannot find any free memory range resources to use. (Code 12)"
One phone technician suggested it might be a motherboard problem. Another suggested it might be a WinME problem (which Dell, for some reason, will not fix even though my computer is under warranty for another year).
Anyone have suggestions about "what next"?
I have reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled WinME countless times with Dell phone support.
In the Device Manager, there are no other conflicting devices.
The network adapter's driver is updated (hardware version 008).
Under device status, it consistently gives me:
"The device cannot find any free memory range resources to use. (Code 12)"
One phone technician suggested it might be a motherboard problem. Another suggested it might be a WinME problem (which Dell, for some reason, will not fix even though my computer is under warranty for another year).
Anyone have suggestions about "what next"?
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ryri
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November 9th, 2003 02:00
this is a problem that basically disappeared with the advent of plug and play back in the win95 era. Assuming the card is functioning, windows should automatically assign it a memory range.
Of course, the only valid reason for that to be true is too many devices already hogging up all of the other memory.
Since this an 8100, I expect that it was once working some time ago? When did it stop working and what were the circumstances?
jejacobs
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November 9th, 2003 13:00
Sorry, it is an Inspiron 8100, PIII 1GHz, 512 MB SDRAM, 16 MB DDR, running on Win ME. All the hardware came shipped, which is why this was so frustrating.
20 GB Hard Drive, 8X CDRW Internal, 8X DVD Modular, (the problematic) Actiontech MiniPCI 56K +10/100 card
The problem was intermittent over the last 9 months. Then I had to ship the system to dell to get the keyboard replaced (some keys stopped working). When it came back, I really couldn't get the network card to work.
Thanks for your post, but I finally solved the problem myself by downloading the latest FlashBIOS for my model on another computer, burned it to a CD, copied it to my computer, and then ran the program. The computer then turned itself off, and when I restarted, all was working.
Why don't the dell phone people tell you to Flash the BIOS first thing?
Jenny
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November 10th, 2003 00:00