ISA Network Card with XP?

EvilFranky · 23 Nov 2006 at 12:32

Hi,

I have a fairly oldish PC capable of running XP, but its on a Micro ATX motherboard. There are only 3 PCI slots and 1 ISA Slot.

As PCI slots are sparse, is there any ISA based network cards that I can plug my cable broadband into that will be compatiable with XP?

This would help a lot!

Clarkey · 23 Nov 2006 at 12:37

most probably will.

ruffneck · 23 Nov 2006 at 13:01

yea and Im pretty sure you can find a 10/100 one too!

errata · 23 Nov 2006 at 13:12

XP does not officaily support ISA non plug and play cards, but you can use NE2000 and 3com (possibly others) if you are comofrtable finding out IRQ and other resources settings and messing about with inf files and manual settings.

See

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/wxpne2k.html

PsiFox · 23 Nov 2006 at 14:17

If not use a USB NIC perhaps?

MadMatty · 23 Nov 2006 at 14:33

my last experience with isa cards was on my old abit BX something or other board with a celeron 350. I had a netgear 10mbit isa card and it really sucked up those cpu cycles, games were slow and the mouse really lagged. after some time, i put a pci ethernet in their and machine was given a new lease of life ! performance went up in everything.

the point to my story is, dont use isa unless ya want the machine to grind

hardc0re_tid · 23 Nov 2006 at 14:49

errata said:
XP does not officaily support ISA non plug and play cards, but you can use NE2000 and 3com (possibly others) if you are comofrtable finding out IRQ and other resources settings and messing about with inf files and manual settings.

See

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/wxpne2k.html

i had a 3com one, worked fine from what i can remember

EvilFranky · 23 Nov 2006 at 15:35

That link looks interesting! Cheers for that.

They look cheap enough just to waste a few quid and try out, so i'll do that and see what sort of performance hit i'll take if any.

Thanks for the replys so far