disappearing nic.

[steven]

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I have a linksys lne10/100 in an asus p5a motherboard running win me. Every
day and at random times the nic disappears. Sometimes the only way to get
it back is to re seat the card but usually a cold boot will do the trick.
Have tried swapping out the nic and also different slots. Any ideas. TIA

 

[Guest]

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On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:54:29 GMT, Steven
<cyberwasp47@verizon.net.delspam> wrote:

>I have a linksys lne10/100 in an asus p5a motherboard running win me. Every
>day and at random times the nic disappears.

If it disappears while system was sitting unused, such that
it went into power managment low power mode, try disabling
power management features and a newer NIC driver.

>Sometimes the only way to get
>it back is to re seat the card

.... which would tend to suggest the card is defective
geometry or just contacts, the motherboard has dirty slots,
motherboard is misaligned in case such that it doesn't sit
centered on studs, or studs are wrong height for case, etc
(an intermittent contact problem).

>but usually a cold boot will do the trick.

This makes it seem less likely a contact problem and more of
a power management problem, weak or failing power supply
problem, or that the PCI bus is overclocked or other bios
misconfiguration or manufacturer's bios defect
(misconfig/bug). If newer motherbaord bios is available you
might try it. If newer motherboard chipset driver is
available that might be tried too.

>Have tried swapping out the nic and also different slots. Any ideas. TIA

Swapping out means that nic worked in another system or
another nic worked in that system?

Super7 chipset based boards had spotty compatibility, if you
haven't tried another brand of nic, that's what i'd try
next. If system uses ACPI power managment you might try APM
power management. Take power supply voltage readings with a
multimeter.

 

[Guest]

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Try going into "Device Manager" & after highlighting the top one in the list
(computer name), click on the "scan for hardware" icon just above.
XP has a habit of "offloading" devices that you don't use for sometime.
BruceM


"Steven" <cyberwasp47@verizon.net.delspam> wrote in message
news:Xns95726456ABD62Cyberwasp@199.45.49.11...
> I have a linksys lne10/100 in an asus p5a motherboard running win me.
Every
> day and at random times the nic disappears. Sometimes the only way to get
> it back is to re seat the card but usually a cold boot will do the trick.
> Have tried swapping out the nic and also different slots. Any ideas. TIA

 

[steven]

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sorry, forgot to mention its windoze me, not xp

"BruceM" <bruce9950@@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:415a515b$1@duster.adelaide.on.net:

> Try going into "Device Manager" & after highlighting the top one in
> the list (computer name), click on the "scan for hardware" icon just
> above. XP has a habit of "offloading" devices that you don't use for
> sometime. BruceM
>
>
> "Steven" <cyberwasp47@verizon.net.delspam> wrote in message
> news:Xns95726456ABD62Cyberwasp@199.45.49.11...
>> I have a linksys lne10/100 in an asus p5a motherboard running win me.
> Every
>> day and at random times the nic disappears. Sometimes the only way to
>> get it back is to re seat the card but usually a cold boot will do
>> the trick. Have tried swapping out the nic and also different slots.
>> Any ideas. TIA
>
>

 

[Guest]

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I have a linksys 10/100 NIC and it has worked good for me. Might not be
the same model. This might be a power supply problem or a problem
with the high speed internet having intermittent signal problems. I
dont know if this was the internet connection or a power supply. You
might be able to set an option for the timeout properties. I know that
Outlook Express likes to disconnect during short periods of
disconnection and then the program just crashes. However, when using
newsgroup reader, Free Agent, I never saw this happen.

Steven wrote:

> I have a linksys lne10/100 in an asus p5a motherboard running win me. Every
> day and at random times the nic disappears. Sometimes the only way to get
> it back is to re seat the card but usually a cold boot will do the trick.
> Have tried swapping out the nic and also different slots. Any ideas. TIA