As for the lighting up issue, I plugged a CAT5 cable from the old box to my good laptop, so that should be considered live enough. Of course, it still doesn't light up, indicating the connection between the NIC and the PCI is no good. I've tried multiple PCI slots to no avail, so I suppose the NIC is bad, even though I've never used it before, and have just had it lying around for two years.

The other thing could be that I'm not pushing the NIC in all the way, although I don't think that's an option because I've been pushing pretty damn hard on it and there's still a little bit of copper that peeks out of the connection.

In conclusion, I hate Windows 98, since it's obviously not a hardware issue. :rolleyes: