3Com (R) Corporation EtherDisk (R) Diskette for The 3C5X9 EtherLink III NIC Family Installing the NDIS 3.0 Driver for Windows NT Installing the NIC using Windows NT 4.0 --------------------------------------- The following steps describe how to install your 3Com network NIC in a computer running Windows NT 4.0. 1. Start Windows NT. 2. Choose Start Menu, Settings, Control panel, and double-click the Network icon. Then select the Adapter tab. 3. Look at the Network Adapter window. If a 3Com EtherLink III ISA adapter is present, highlight the 3Com EtherLink III ISA adapter and press Remove. A warning will appear. press Yes. The NIC will disappear. Close the menu, shutdown and reboot the computer, login, repeat step 2 and go to step 4. 4. Now press the Add Adapter button. After a delay, an NIC selection Window will appear. Press the Have Disk button. Insert the EtherDisk diskette into drive A: and press the OK button on the insert disk window. 5. In the Select OEM Option window, select the NIC you are installing. This is normally the 3Com EtherLink (3C509) ISA adapter. Press the OK button. 6. Assuming you chose the 3C509 NIC, the 3Com EtherLink III (3C509) ISA Bus window appears. Press the OK button. 7. You now return to the Network window, if you don't have other changes to make, press the Close button. Windows NT will redo the bindings, then prompt for a reboot. Press the Yes button. The network will operate after you log in following the reboot. IMPORTANT If your are using this driver in an Windows NT 4.0 multiprocessor computer, then you must update Windows NT 4.0 to Service Pack 3 or newer. Failure to update to Service Pack 3 may result in Windows NT crashes. Installing the NIC using Windows NT 3.51 ---------------------------------------- The following steps describe how to install your 3Com network NIC in a computer running Windows NT. 1. Start Windows NT. 2. In the Main Group, open Control panel, then open the Network icon. 3. If the EtherLink III adapter is already installed, highlight it in the Installed Adapter cards window and press the Remove button. Press the Yes button on the confirmation windows that appears next. Windows NT then removes the NIC and returns to the network setting window. Press the OK button, then press the Restart Now button on the Network Settings Change Window. After NT reboots, log in and reopen the Network icon. 4. In the Network Settings window, click Add Adapter. Windows NT prepares the Add Network Adapter windows. Select Requires disk from manufacturer (the last item in the list) and press the Continue button. 5. Insert the EtherDisk diskette into drive A: and press the OK button on the Insert Disk menu. If the diskette driver is not A, then enter the correct drive letter followed by a colon in the dialog box. 6. In the Select OEM Option window, select the correct NIC. Assuming you are installing the 3C509 ISA NIC, that item is highlighted, so press the OK button. 7. Next, a Bus Location window appears, for the 3C509 ISA adapter, just press the OK button. 8. Windows NT will now copy the files from the EtherDisk and install and configure the NIC software. When this step is complete, the Network Settings windows reappears. If you have no other network changes to make, press the OK button. Windows NT will complete the configuration of the network. 9. In the Network Settings Change window, click Restart to restart your computer. (%VER WINNT.TXT - Installing the NDIS 3.0 Driver for Windows NT V5.1b)