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    I have an Asus a8n32 SLI Deluxe, and I'm using the onboard Nforce 4 NIC. I'm having an issue where every half an hour or so, my network connection drops out, and then resumes itself a minute or so later.

    It's incredibly annoying.

    No other computers connected to this router have this issue.

    I'm running the latest driver for the NIC.

    Help?

  • #2
    A few things:

    1. What happens if you bypass the router and plug straight into the cable/dsl modem/router?

    2. By default, nic cards and routers/switches are set to auto. More times than not, these auto connections can be mismatched. Try manually setting speed/duplex. Some routers won't allow this.

    3. download ethereal, sniff the wire and see what is going on.

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    • #3
      did you try switching cables?
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      • #4
        Originally posted by Helevitia View Post
        A few things:

        1. What happens if you bypass the router and plug straight into the cable/dsl modem/router?
        I probably piss off my roommate. :-)

        I suppose I could try that for diagnostic purposes.

        2. By default, nic cards and routers/switches are set to auto. More times than not, these auto connections can be mismatched. Try manually setting speed/duplex. Some routers won't allow this.
        I manually set the properties on the NIC, fwiw.

        3. download ethereal, sniff the wire and see what is going on.
        Can't hurt.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by |Mehen| View Post
          did you try switching cables?
          Yep.

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          • #6
            Did you try switching ports?
            FT.

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            • #7
              Powersaving kicking in?
              Verify the powersaving options of the network adapter (if any) in the device manager.


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              • #8
                Originally posted by Fat Tone View Post
                Did you try switching ports?
                Yessir.

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                • #9
                  Well, I'm guessing it's hardware related at this point. I run a dual boot on this machine, and it's happened under linux. Dammit.

                  When I get a chance, I'll have to bypass the router to see if it's the router itself or something in my machine.

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                  • #10
                    I'm with you that it is most likely hardware.
                    I had a Biostar NForce3 board that acted something like this.
                    It would drop it's connection whenever I tried to DL or copy a really large file over it.
                    Not just to the internet, but to other machines in our home network.
                    I tried different cables, bioses, and drivers but nothing helped.

                    I finally just gave up chasing it, installed a pci nic and turned off the onboard one.
                    The problem never returned.
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                    • #11
                      I am not sure on you model but quite a few nvidia chipset network connections with the built in fire walls have had similar issues like these. From what I can recall disabling checksum offloading(device manger) may help, but I think it should have been fixed by now...eg make sure you have the latest bios/firmware.

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                      • #12
                        nVidia makes crap network cards, and has since nForce3. It's sad, really, that they can't manage to even make as good a NIC as they did on the nForce2.

                        I highly recommend just getting yourself a nice 3c905 (or whatever the gigabit equivalent is). I've got several floating around and apply them liberally.
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                        • #13
                          Yeah, the nVidia NIC on my DFI kicked the bucket long ago. Luckily, this board had a second NIC onboard.
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                          • #14
                            Here is a nice solid 10/100/1000 NIC for $8
                            Chuck
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by cjolley View Post
                              I'm with you that it is most likely hardware.
                              I had a Biostar NForce3 board that acted something like this.
                              It would drop it's connection whenever I tried to DL or copy a really large file over it.
                              Not just to the internet, but to other machines in our home network.
                              Yup. I'll actually get the "The network cable is unplugged" notification.

                              I tried different cables, bioses, and drivers but nothing helped.

                              I finally just gave up chasing it, installed a pci nic and turned off the onboard one.
                              The problem never returned.
                              I may have to resort to that.

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