Gigabit NIC's stop working!

[Agent K 0]

Hi there, I hope some of you might be able to help me with my problem.

 

My gigabit nic keeps locking up in Windows XP, I have tried 3 different cards now, 3com, netgear and correga...all of them work for varying periods of time but sooner or later freeze, I have to restart the PC to get them working again as they all stop responding full stop, not able to repair, remove, uninstall until I reboot.

 

I haven't tried changing the cables (plural cause I have two running to the PC, one as backup!), my mainboard has 2 onboard 10/100mb nic aswell and they both work fine without any freezing. So I presume that the cables are ok! and I have tried moving them around the PCI slots to see if it was IRQ sharing causing the problems. I have also ran Norton Antivirus 2004 and the online Homecall scanner and they found nothing, also Adaware has been ran, anything found has been removed!

 

Here's the spec of this PC (My Server)

 

ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Gold rev 1.04 Bios 1007

AMD Athlon XP 3000+

1GB (2x256MB 1x512MB) Corsair XMS Platinum Memory CAS2

Pioneer DVD106 DVD Rewriter (IDE)

HP Surestore 12/24 DAT Drive (SCSI)

2 x Maxtor DX540 120GB Drives (Raid 0 onboard SIL3112A SATA)

8 x WD 7200rpm 80GB Drives (Raid 5 Highpoint RocketRaid 454)

GeForce FX5600 MyVivo 256MB (AGP)

Symbios Logic SCSI Controller (PCI Slot 4)

Highpoint RocketRaid 454 Controller (PCI Slot 5)

2x Enermax 550W PSU

Dual Chieftec Dragon Full Tower (10x80mm FAN 1x120mm FAN)

3x Nexus Fan Controller (Keeps the noise down!)

 

All the onboard functions not needed, eg Serial Ports, Parallel Ports, Firewire are disabled to free up resources.

 

The gigabit cards I have used are,

 

1. 3Com 3C2000-T

2. Netgear GA302T

3. Correga GEther PCI-32T

 

If you can help, please do!

[hal3390 0]

Hi, had a similar problem with my pc - every time I copied some GB from this to another pc shorter or later the transfer over the gigabit lan locked the windows - only reset worked.

I tested a lot:

changed the position of the gigabit lan adapter

test the ram with memtest86

changed the position of the ram from dual mode to normal

installed sp3 and sp4 for win2k

nothing solved the problem.

 

Then I read something about problems after changing motherboards - and installed on a new partition a new win2k instance.

Suprise, suprise - now the gigabit lan works.

 

A7N8X Deluxe Rev.2

2x512MB TwinMos

Netgear GA302T

Promise Adapter

6 HDD = 730GB

MSI FX5600

 

[peterh 1]

This may help. When setting it up, in the properties, set the card's speed from Auto to whatever speed you want it to e.g. 100/Full or 1000/Full so it isn`t trying to re-negiotiate the speed all the time.