Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) DE500 Driver Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
john W
Tested on Windows XP
18 Oct 2008
(5 months after download)
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"This matched the factory driver and worked correctly"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Francisco Guarino
Tested on Windows XP
10 Jan 2007
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"it's very easy to install"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
James Moore

16 Aug 2004
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Can not install under Win2000 Pro. Any advice?"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Jim

22 Jan 2004
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"would not install on XP reported "the style of the inf is different than what was requested"""
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
zarkov

24 Oct 2003
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"This has the 21142 driver for the 21143 chipset that works. change oem name to get picked up by add adapter."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Kayne

8 Apr 2003
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Hey Rusty, im havin the same probs as you... XP wont let me install the driver for it, n is picking it up as a cabletron de500b. have you worked out how to mak it work with win2kpro? please email me if you have?! thanx"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Rusty

2 Feb 2003
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"card was seen by 2kpro as a cabletron de500b. tried updating using the dec drivers and both de500.inf and de500pci.inf failed because "the style of the inf is different then what was requested""
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Michael Willig

31 Jan 2003
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Worked fine with digital 5100. Tried to use dx21x.dos which followed win98 and this file didn't work with dos-boot. But your file did. de500.dos wworked fine."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Steve Dodge

12 Dec 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"I test nic drivers and had to test one of our nics with multiple other vendors nics. The download was painless and the lan driver worked fine under netware 6."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
radi

21 Oct 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Worked perfectly under NT4 (the one I tested) Thanks... -)"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
steve

16 Aug 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"this is part of an archived zip and failed to open. Where is the rest??"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Norman Selva

15 Aug 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Veremos si funciona con el Chip 21143-TD que viene integrado en la placa de una Compaq Presario"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Darrell

21 Apr 2002
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Thankyou for this - I'll let you know if it works... The one that came with Win95b didnt..."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
duff beer

25 Nov 2001
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Thanks for the driver Peter - I hope it works with my Accton EN1207C-TX"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Adam

15 May 2001
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Any suggestions to tweaking the settings for better network performance would be appreciated. TA."
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Rudi J. Blom
Tested on UNIX
29 Mar 2016
(7 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"Using the SCO LLI driver version"
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bole
Tested on Windows XP
15 Oct 2013
(34 minutes after download)
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"very good thank you"
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