Conflict between AB KT card and ethernet card

[ldemory]

I have a PC using an OPC based VB6 program to pull data out of a SLC 5/04 over DH+. This same PC is on our company network where it writes the information to an Access database on a network drive.

When we initially setup the system, we used a laptop with an AB PCMK card and had no problems. Eventually we wanted to free up the laptop for other projects so we replaced it with a desktop with an AB KT (isa) card. We immediately started having trouble with the computer dropping the network drives. It would still show up as connected to the network, but the network drives were unavailable. We have to reboot the PC to fix the problem.

We've tried to replace everyting: the pc, the nic, we used a different AB KT card. None of these solved the problem. We thought it might be due to the KT card being an old ISA format (IRQ conflicts), so I got my hands on a PKTX card. That didn't solve the problem either.

Anyone experience a problem like this and know of any solutions?

Thanks,

Lee

 

[gcaudill]

Maybe.... a registry entry needs cleaned up. Talk to Rockwell software to see what registry entries could be at fault, and then reload the drivers for which ever card you are using. What operating system are you using?

 

[ldemory]

I'm using Windows 2000, which is also a good point. The old laptop that worked used NT. I was forced into migrating the system to 2000 by the IT department.

 

[SteveMeisel]

We also had conflicts with the ISA cards and the network card. After I installed the PKTX cards the conflict disappeared. We are also running Win98. Our IT dept wanted us to use Win2000 but we insisted Win98.

A quick search at Rockwell's site listed some things that might help you out.

http://domino.automation.rockwell.com/applications/kb/RAKB.nsf/$$Search?OpenForm

Type in 1784-PKTX in the "keyword" and leave the product families as "all". It turns up 29 results. The link to that page would not work when I previewed this posting.

Be sure to check them all out as I noticed several dealt with your situation. It that doesn't help call Rockwell.

Good Luck,

Steve