Gswiss

I installed the 3com driver v0046 and the request for ethernet controller disappeared. However there is still no connection. I also ran the inf utility you mentioned.

I used several times ich5 drivers in the past when I carried out reinstallations with this MB. This time, it rejected the inf's I had on the diskette when I inserted it for the ethernet controller request..

In the device mgr, I just noticed that my 2 optical disks have exclamation marks on yellow background attached to them while they are perfectly recognized by the BIOS at startup. I got a similar situation a while back. This was due to a virus. I just ran Avast with the latest signature updates to no avail.

I uninstalled the 1st device and Windows was unable to reinstall it.