Document #: 06538

3C90x - Award BIOS - Win95 - System hangs during startup

Problem:
During startup, the system hangs. Win95 boots fine when the NIC is not installed in the PCI slot.

Solution:
In the BIOS (Award ver. ROM PCI/ISA - 2A5GBD49), in Chipset Features category,
there is an option: LOCK PCI BUS ON ISA DMA.
Set this value to DISABLED and reboot.
The NIC should be detected as new hardware by Windows 95.
Install the driver from the EtherDisk 2 (path out to the root: a:\).

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