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July 9th 07, 02:02 PM
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Solution: 3COM 3C905-TX drivers for Vista
In the afternoon (7 hrs ago) I installed my first Vista Business
OEM-version. I was surprized that Vista did not find any suitable drivers for my 3COM 3C905-TX network adapter. Even if this is not a brand new network adapter model it was some years back the most popular of the 3COM 10/100 adapters. Time to start Googling to get this sluggishly slow Vista up and networked. Uhh, this Vista is a real crawler, even on an Athlon 3500 CPU with 1 GB of RAM. I soon found serveral others looking 3COM Vista drivers also. Someone told that 3C905 drivers are there on the Vista installation-DVD, and they should get automatically installed. I tried this and made Vista search drivers again from the DVD, but again it did not find anything. Some other suggested that Driver Guide site has new and suitable Vista driver for 3C905. I again found nothing Vista related from there. The solution for this Vista problem simple once you find it. Just go and download this 5 year old driver from 3COM site he http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/r...-TX&order=desc "3c90x1.exe" "07 Nov 2002" "Size: 0.89 MB" Run the EXE that appears to be a DOS-style self extracting file and extract it to some temporary folder. Now make Vista to look 3C905 driver from that folder, and Vista finds a driver and installs it. After that you can go and check the driver version and it looks like this: "File version: 4.31.0000 Copyright 1994-2002, 3Com Corporation." Vista is now completely happy with this driver and you can get to the internet. But once you now got to the web you can make Vista to look even newer driver, it even seems to find something and installs this kind of driver "File version: 4.41.0000 Copyright 1994-2002, 3Com Corporation." There is only very small, or none, difference between those driver versions and both seem to run fine on Vista. So this was only for 3C905 adapter, now there is only 10.000 other open Vista driver problems to be solved. Hopefully someone could save 7 hours of his/hers work time with this tip  p.p. 
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November 25th 07, 05:34 AM
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Solution: 3COM 3C905-TX drivers for Vista
I did just exactly what you said and it worked perfect he he I'mjust curious how did you come to try that? Thanks again -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=35858 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=780085 http://forums.techarena.in
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May 19th 08, 02:21 PM
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Solution: 3COM 3C905-TX drivers for Vista
Tanks guy... I'm from Brazil and was looking for a solution, with the driver for Vista. But its so difficult to find these drivers yet. I'll try your tip... =) -- Alysson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alysson's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=49800 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=780085 http://forums.techarena.in
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January 13th 09, 01:50 PM
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Solution: 3COM 3C905-TX drivers for Vista
Just used this same solution on the Windows 7 Beta. Worked great! -- petercm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ petercm's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/petercm.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-har...ces/780085.htm http://forums.techarena.in
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January 13th 09, 03:24 PM
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Solution: 3COM 3C905-TX drivers for Vista
petercm wrote:
Just used this same solution on the Windows 7 Beta. Worked great! Unfortunately, no one knows to whom you are giving this information since you are not posting on a real forum as you think you are and you didn't quote any of the thread to which you are replying. You are using a web interface that leeches Usenet posts and most of the rest of us are using real newsreaders. We don't see what you do. If you want to participate in Usenet, the better way is to set up a newsreader. This is very easy to do and I'll give you information about that below. If you prefer to use a forum, then here are two excellent ones: http://forum.aumha.org/index.php http://http://computerhaven.info/ Since you are using a web interface, you may not realize that this is really a newsgroup. You will get far more out of this resource if you learn to use a newsreader. There are many good newsreaders for Windows, but you can use Outlook Express (XP) or Windows Mail (Vista) since you already have it. Here are some links to information about newsgroups: About Usenet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ - Usenet FAQs from the Internet FAQ Archives http://www.usenetmonster.com/infocenter/ http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet - a brief explanation of newsgroups Outlook Express/Windows Mail as Newsreader: http://michaelstevenstech.com/outloo...snewreader.htm http://rickrogers.org/setupoe.htm http://vistasupport.mvps.org/accessi...ndows_mail.htm How to Post: http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 - How to Ask a Question http://users.tpg.com.au/bzyhjr/liszt.htm - How Not to Get Technical Help on Usenet http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups microsoft.public.test.here - MS group to test if your newsreader is working properly http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/munad.htm - how to munge email address http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting - crossposting http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting Other Newsreaders for Windows: http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php - Forte http://www.mozilla.org - Thunderbird Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ
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February 9th 10, 09:23 AM
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3c905B drivers
How exactly do I install these drivers? which file has to be downloaded from 3com homepage?
petercm wrote: Just used this same solution on the Windows 7 Beta. Worked great! 13-Jan-09 Just used this same solution on the Windows 7 Beta. Worked great! -- petercm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ petercm's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/petercm.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-har...ces/780085.htm http://forums.techarena.in Previous Posts In This Thread: On Monday, July 09, 2007 10:02 AM Peter Puuppo wrote: Solution: 3COM 3C905-TX drivers for Vista In the afternoon (7 hrs ago) I installed my first Vista Business OEM-version. I was surprized that Vista did not find any suitable drivers for my 3COM 3C905-TX network adapter. Even if this is not a brand new network adapter model it was some years back the most popular of the 3COM 10/100 adapters. Time to start Googling to get this sluggishly slow Vista up and networked. Uhh, this Vista is a real crawler, even on an Athlon 3500 CPU with 1 GB of RAM. I soon found serveral others looking 3COM Vista drivers also. Someone told that 3C905 drivers are there on the Vista installation-DVD, and they should get automatically installed. I tried this and made Vista search drivers again from the DVD, but again it did not find anything. Some other suggested that Driver Guide site has new and suitable Vista driver for 3C905. I again found nothing Vista related from there. The solution for this Vista problem simple once you find it. Just go and download this 5 year old driver from 3COM site he http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/r...-TX&order=desc "3c90x1.exe" "07 Nov 2002" "Size: 0.89 MB" Run the EXE that appears to be a DOS-style self extracting file and extract it to some temporary folder. Now make Vista to look 3C905 driver from that folder, and Vista finds a driver and installs it. After that you can go and check the driver version and it looks like this: "File version: 4.31.0000 Copyright 1994-2002, 3Com Corporation." Vista is now completely happy with this driver and you can get to the internet. But once you now got to the web you can make Vista to look even newer driver, it even seems to find something and installs this kind of driver "File version: 4.41.0000 Copyright 1994-2002, 3Com Corporation." There is only very small, or none, difference between those driver versions and both seem to run fine on Vista. So this was only for 3C905 adapter, now there is only 10.000 other open Vista driver problems to be solved. Hopefully someone could save 7 hours of his/hers work time with this tip p.p. On Sunday, November 25, 2007 1:34 AM surveytaker wrote: Solution: 3COM 3C905-TX drivers for Vista I did just exactly what you said and it worked perfect he he I'mjust curious how did you come to try that? Thanks again -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=35858 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=780085 http://forums.techarena.in On Monday, May 19, 2008 10:21 AM Alysson wrote: Tanks guy... Tanks guy... I'm from Brazil and was looking for a solution, with the driver for Vista. But its so difficult to find these drivers yet. I'll try your tip... =) -- Alysson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alysson's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=49800 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=780085 http://forums.techarena.in On Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:50 AM petercm wrote: Just used this same solution on the Windows 7 Beta. Worked great! Just used this same solution on the Windows 7 Beta. Worked great! -- petercm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ petercm's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/petercm.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-har...ces/780085.htm http://forums.techarena.in On Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:24 AM Malke wrote: Solution: 3COM 3C905-TX drivers for Vista petercm wrote: Unfortunately, no one knows to whom you are giving this information since you are not posting on a real forum as you think you are and you didn't quote any of the thread to which you are replying. You are using a web interface that leeches Usenet posts and most of the rest of us are using real newsreaders. We don't see what you do. If you want to participate in Usenet, the better way is to set up a newsreader. This is very easy to do and I'll give you information about that below. If you prefer to use a forum, then here are two excellent ones: http://forum.aumha.org/index.php http://http://computerhaven.info/ Since you are using a web interface, you may not realize that this is really a newsgroup. You will get far more out of this resource if you learn to use a newsreader. There are many good newsreaders for Windows, but you can use Outlook Express (XP) or Windows Mail (Vista) since you already have it. Here are some links to information about newsgroups: About Usenet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ - Usenet FAQs from the Internet FAQ Archives http://www.usenetmonster.com/infocenter/ http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet - a brief explanation of newsgroups Outlook Express/Windows Mail as Newsreader: http://michaelstevenstech.com/outloo...snewreader.htm http://rickrogers.org/setupoe.htm http://vistasupport.mvps.org/accessi...ndows_mail.htm How to Post: http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 - How to Ask a Question http://users.tpg.com.au/bzyhjr/liszt.htm - How Not to Get Technical Help on Usenet http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups microsoft.public.test.here - MS group to test if your newsreader is working properly http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/munad.htm - how to munge email address http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting - crossposting http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting Other Newsreaders for Windows: http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php - Forte http://www.mozilla.org - Thunderbird Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice Create Hidden SharePoint List for Site Owners http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...harepoint.aspx
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