neurosis666
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- Feb 11, 2006
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Originally posted by: vernsh
Originally posted by: neurosis666
I just picked up an Asus A8N-E the other day, and am having a problem with the onboard NIC.
Problem - about 80% of the time, I can't load webpages. SSH sessions freeze when too much text scrolls by. It's not dropping packets, but I have no idea what it IS doing. It's just wrong. This was with a multitude of drivers, in both Linux (nvnet & forcedeth) and Windows. I did disable CRC Offload, to no avail.
So I disabled onboard NIC, installed my known-good trusty DFE530TX. Seemed to work great -- until I started downloading alot of stuff (demos, STEAM downloads, etc). Suddenly 'A network cable has been unplugged', and then instant reconnect. Tried a variety of cables.. Moved the card to different slots. Even went out and bought a new NIC (Linksys LNE100). Same problem. Everytime there's high traffic to/from the card, that error pops up.
Also getting windows bootup freezes.. I did disable command queuing, hoping that would help. Also freezes while navigating BIOS menu. Weird huh?
There are no temperature issues, everything is nice and cool.. memtest clean.. Powersupply should be sufficient.. No overclocking going on...
Is this a defect or what?
You have to take a further step if you're using 3rd party antivirus and/or firewall. Nvidia's NV4 has a (to me) nasty little program which runs by default called "active armor". My system went BSOD continuosly until I shut it down. Go to Nvidia Corp > Network Access Manager to disable it.
Thanks, but I knew to steer well clear of the NVidia network software.. No firewall, no A/V. I'm just trying to get basic network functionality out of this thing!
Ooh. Apparently my network cable is unplugged again.