first off...
XP PRO
604mhz
256RAM

I wanted to install speakers on my system, I plugged them in, and my ethernet card stopped working! I preformed a system restore, it worked again....stupid me...I plugged the speakers back in, and, of course, ethernet card stopped working, again. Tried system restore again, no luck! I ran device manager, said the device isnt functioning properly Code10. WTF do I do?

Suggestions...other than installing xp...again. This is the same thing that happened when I was using a 56k modem card, and it crashed before....Obviously...I wont be installing speakers again! But what can I do to get the card working again?

*More Info...

Adapter: NE 2000 Compatible ISA PNP EHTERNET ADAPTER
on VIA TECH PCI to ISA Bridge

says Device cannot start.
:(

Well, my dear Sammy gave me a suggestion...taking the network card out and putting it back it...seems to have worked for now. Will keep my fingers crossed and hope it continues to work.

*Note to self....dont install speakers!

Just odd why it would do that though. Sound card probs maybe? Any thoughts?

Ok these are just suggestions.

First make sure you have all the latest VIA drivers installed after installing XP

http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=2
http://forums.viaarena.com/index.cfm?NoCookies=Yes&forumid=1

You can ask in the forum if you don't get any luck here, but with my board I needed the 4in1 drivers, AGP and USB driver and something called a "latency patch" (apparantley not having the latency patch causes some problems with video cards, but have never heard of problems with Ethernet cards).

Last thing I'm thinking of is changing the way the IRQ's (interrupt requests) are handled, you might want to check over the BIOS settings first and this is only something to try I'm not an expert
Control Panel > Device Manager > System Devices > PCI Bus > IRQ Steering *

If it's set to using the MS Specification table then try setting it so that it only looks at the BIOS instead. As you might already know in the "old days" most cards had jumper settings for the IRQ to use and if two cards shared the same IRQ then you were in trouble, then they all get allocated by the o/s instead but this can sometimes go wrong. The bios settings will be under PCI (or similar) as well, sometimes settings are set to being reserved and this means they arn't avaliable.

* I'm using 98se and not XP, so this might look slightly different !