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!

[DS3Circuit 0]

Have you done?

 

1. Uninstall then reinstall latest drivers.

2. Latest motherboard / inf drivers.

3. Latest bios flash

[Agent K 0]

I guarantee everything single piece of kit is up to date.

 

I have found a fix for it though, I have ordered a Gigabyte 7NNXP to replace the ASUS board, it has onboard gigabit that works with my current network setup.....I know this cause my main PC has it!...

 

Anyways, thanks to all the people who read the post, and to the one chap that replied....I know it wasn't any easy one.

 

If anyone is after an Asus A7N8X Deluxe rev. 1.04 or gigabit NIC's.... drop me a line ;-) (UK Only)

 

Cheers

[adamvjackson 0]

Was the Gigabit card in a 32 bit or 64 bit PCI slot? Do you think that the PCI bus was saturated?

 

(Edit below)

 

Just saw that you have some pretty bus-intensive hardware there, raid controller, etc... Seems that if you were using a 32-bit PCI slot, bus bottlenecking may have been causing the problems.

[Agent K 0]

Thanks for the extra reply, all sorted now. The Gigabyte GA-7NNXP board works a treat.

 

No more gigabit stalling, its 24/7 so far, and it had better stay that way....it takes quite a while to pull that thing apart and then put it all back together again.

 

BTW Anyone have any idea why Gigabyte seem to have there PCI slots marked round the wrong way, in the manual it reads AGP - PCI 1 - PCI 2 - PCI 3 - PCI 4 - PCI 5, but in the bios its round the other way!...by that I mean that even though it says PCI Slot 5, its actually telling me whats plugged in PCI Slot 1 (Ref Manual), slot 4 is slot 2 yada yada yada.....nevermind it works!

[shogun 0]

Hi,

 

Sorry to butt in...but noticed that you were running a GA-7NNXP MB and a GeForce FX5600...have you had any problems with glitchyness in games such a Halo or Call of Duty (or indeed any other graphically intensive situations?).

 

Reason I ask: I have just bought the same MB and am currently awaiting delivery of it (+ a 2800 Barton, and a 550W PSU) as my current rig - Athlon2000XP+, SIS745 MB, 2x512MB DDR Corsairs and 300W PSU are causing me all sorts of headaches with the FX framerate, it's unplayable and is in fact worse than a GeForce 4 MX440.....

 

Thought it may be because of Heat/Power probs or because the MB only supported AGP4x and was pretty slow (133FSB)...just can't seem to find the answer anywhere, and I know that this card is better than an MX440

 

So I'm hoping that this will sort it....

 

Any comments greatly appreciated

Cheers.....