this is akin to having your 3000
>running MPE/XL  3.0.
>

I recall my memory with MPE II or MPE III, but no MPE/XL 3.0 may be I am
wrong

MPE III with UDC / TDP was big deal and one patch with sudden system
failure 17, it was worse than WINDOW crash on middle of GL tape to tape
updating...
when they start using SDLC(?) with using multi drop termainal network...
(programs was porting from IBM 370 and cut the size to fit to run).

>When you dropped your ISA card in favor of a PCI card, you must have loaded
>new drivers to support that card, since Windows 3.x knows nothing about PCI
>devices without new drivers.  These drivers would have accompanied the
>card.  You should visit the 3Com web site and see if they have new 3.x
>drivers for that card.

I agree, I belive PCI card use different IRQ than ISA IRQ
>

Peter C.
--Original Message-----
>From:   PAULA R. REICHL [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:   Wednesday, 17 March, 1999 10:30 AM
>To:     [log in to unmask]
>Subject:        Fwd: Re: New NIC causes problems
>
>We are having the same problem with a couple of our connections.  The PCs
>are running NT and once in a while they just lose it--their connection is
>very slow and then they have trouble reconnecting.
>
>I took them off of our DHCP server and gave them a permanent IP address
>and it 'seems' to have fixed the problem-so far.  It been several weeks
>and all if well.  See if that helps.  If you find another solution, please
>let me know.
>
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>>Hello,
>>
>>I recently "upgraded" the network card in my PC from an Accton MPX
>>NE2000-compatible ISA card to a 3Com 3C905 PCI card, and I've run into a
>>little bug that I can't figure out.
>>
>>Now, every once in a while, my NS/VT connection to the 3K gets *really*
>>slow.  The only things affected are:  block mode transfers, downloads
>>with the terminal emulator (Minisoft), and Qedit for Windows.  Otherwise,
>>if I'm just doing command-prompt stuff, everything seems a-ok.
>>
>>The problem is especially bothersome because it's intermittent.
>>Everything seems to work fine and then - boom! - block mode screen
>>redraws get *s*l*o*w* and downloads don't work at all.  I can't tie the
>>problem down to any other apps I'm running -- sometimes the termulator is
>>the only thing going.  To clear the problem, I reboot and try again.
>>
>>Is it perhaps becuase I'm now loading both 802.2 and 802.3 frame types?
>>That's the only thing I've changed, besides the card.  And, in case it
>>matters, we're still on Win 3.11.
>>
>>
>>TIA,
>>
>>Art Frank
>>Manager of Information Systems
>>OHS Foundation
>>[log in to unmask]
>>(503) 220-8320
>>
>
>
>
>Paula R. Reichl
>Neenah Joint School District
>(920)751-6831
>[log in to unmask]
>