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# Network Card Drivers That Must Load in Conventional Memory

Article ID: 107347

Article Last Modified on 9/26/1999

APPLIES TO

- Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11

This article was previously published under Q107347

## SUMMARY

To operate correctly, certain network card drivers require that you load them into conventional memory. These cards all use bus-mastering direct memory access (DMA) for transferring data, which prevents the drivers from being loaded into the upper memory blocks (UMBs).
Below is a list of these network adapters and the corresponding driver names.

       Network card                                Driver name
       -------------------------------------------------------

       Advanced Micro Devices AM2100/AM1500T        AM2100.DOS
       DLINK DE500 VLB                               DE500.DOS
       Exos 105                                     AM2100.DOS
       Novell/Anthem NE1500T                        AM2100.DOS
       Novell/Anthem NE2100                         AM2100.DOS
       Zenith Data Systems Z-Note                   I82593.DOS

For testing, load the network drivers into conventional memory by replacing the NET START line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT with the following line:

`net start /nohi`

Additional query words: 3.11

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