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GA-7VAX and onboard NIC failure
Yes, I had the NIC on a VAXP-A fail after about 2 weeks. I didn't dream it
was the mainboard, and spent all day looking at cables, software, drivers etc. It's a lot of hassle to swap a mainboard out just for something that is easily cured with a PCI NIC instead. I've also had network cards just fail - even expensive ones. In my experience the cheap ones are better than expensive ones. (If in the UK, see redstore.com. They have 10/100 cards for under GBP3). No further problems as yet. The NIC took my last free opening in the back of the case - even though I only have one PCI card, the VAXP-A has firewire, USB, sound and other things on brackets ... Don't know if it is fixable, but it is annoying. Even to swap out a motherboard with all those connections takes time. Worse still, I was daft enough to set up Windows again ... its XP. The VAXP-A was a replacement for something else that failed - it was the hdd, and I thought it was the mainboard! Then XP told me I'd activated too many times and insisted I ring the evil empire ... they have specially trained staff to deal with irate customers you know. They need to! "Shanon" wrote in message news Hey, I bought a GA-7VX in March and was using the onboard NIC and sound with no problems for a few months. Then, one day in June, while just surfing around the net, I found that the NIC was no longer functioning. Thinking that the problem was just temporary, and confined to the OS I was using, linux, I rebooted and checked out the bios. The bios showed the NIC as being enabled. So I boot to Windows 2000 to see if it would have a problem. It found it, then lost it, then found it again, then lost it for good. So I checked the bios again, this time the NIC was not available. So there was no way to disable then enable again. I then switched to the second bios in hopes that by some miracle it would show up. No go. I also tried the obvious of checking the cable. I made sure it was in right, then replaced it in case it was a dud cable. Still nothing. So I put in a PCI NIC and that works fine, although sometimes Windows doesn't like it, and when I check in the control panel, it says that the device failed to start. I tried to see if I could exchange it where I bought it from, but they say only within 30 days and that they will fix it. So, has anyone else had a problem like this? Is it fixable? Should I not worry about it? Is this indicative of a bigger problem?? The rest of the board seems fine. Thanks! and sorry for being so wordy! Shanon |
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Had the same problem with the 7VAXP today - turns out there is an issue with
the Realtek 8139 going to sleep and not waking up... search groups.google.com for 7VAXP and NIC... Anyway, you need to download a program, RSET8139 from Realtek's website, and then just play around under the Power Management section... it should come good again. ftp://152.104.125.40/cn/nic/rtl8139a...et8139-503.zip |
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 20:54:12 +1000, Ginger Ale wrote:
Had the same problem with the 7VAXP today - turns out there is an issue with the Realtek 8139 going to sleep and not waking up... search groups.google.com for 7VAXP and NIC... Anyway, you need to download a program, RSET8139 from Realtek's website, and then just play around under the Power Management section... it should come good again. ftp://152.104.125.40/cn/nic/rtl8139a...et8139-503.zip Hey, Thanks for the info and the link. I am checking it out now! Thanks again, Shanon |
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