NIC stops working

[korgul]

OK here is the deal. I am running XP on a 1.2 T-bird 384 Mb ram.

At times the NIC will stop working, if I reboot all is well and I am able to connect to internet, mail, router.

So today it happens again and I decide I am going to figure out what is happening. The first thing that I think of is the lease on the IP ran out. So I go to a command prompt try to release and renew the IP. See pic for message. I have never seen this one before.

When the nic does go out I am unable to connect to the router ( dhcp server) I can not get out of my machine. Unfortunatly I did not try to ping the loopback.

What the heck is going on here? Any ideas?

korgul

[Mntsnow]

where is the pic?

[korgul]

ooops here it is

[[A3D]Hatswitch]

1) Where is the NIC installed? If it resides in the top PCI slot (under an AGP card), move it. Never put anything directly below the AGP card. Not there? Look in the BIOS to see if it is sharing an IRQ with something else.

2) What kind/brand is it? I've never had any problems with Intel cards.

[korgul]

1) Not installed next to AGP slot, resides 2 slots below.

1a) still gotta look in bios to see if it is shareing. Don't think it is as this is an intermttent issue. It happens every day or two.

2) Netgear 311fa

edit: looked in device manager and the NIC is not shareing with anything. It is on IRQ 11 by itself

[Ritalin Kid]

Are you sure that there is not an IP bound to the adapter?

[korgul]

Going into the tcp/ip properties for the NIC show that it is set to obtain an IP automatically.

[Ritalin Kid]

Are you sure that there is not an IP bound to the adapter?

[caddmannq]

OK, I've run those NICs for years with no problem.

But: I was having a dropout problem too, on my home PC, and it would re-connect when I re-booted everything. For a while...

Ipconfig would always fail to refresh, unless I re-booted everything.

Turned out that my router was bad, and as soon as it got warm, DHCP would fail, & I'd get dropped. It cooled a bit while re-booting, but then would drop again soon.

I proved this out by putting an ice pack on the router. If it stays cold, no drops.

I've got a neww router comming, but as I post this, my router resides under an ice pack. I keep a couple in the freezer, and change them as they melt!

[Xeroid]

You overclocking your router again Cad?

[korgul]

Ritilin Kid yes I am sure there is not IP bound to the nic

cadd - with the problem that you were having would other PC's be able to connect to the internet. This is only happening to me, when it does happen all other PC's are still able to surf then network and internet.



It is almost like the NIC goes to sleep and refuses to wake up.

[caddmannq]

Nope. I'd loose them one at a time, within a minute or so.

You overclocking your router again Cad?

Nope. It's just a POS.

Gigafast brand, just FYI.

[thronka]

Have you turned on WAKE ON LAN. I heard that if you enabled this option that it will keep it on if you have ACPI enabled on the network card.

[korgul]

Cadd - I only loose my connection


Thronka - I will look into that but isn't wake on LAN for remote starting of the PC?