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by 14me24u 1 view

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I have been having a problem for a while now with dieing network cards. First I will tell you alittle about my system

Windows XP Pro
AMD 1 GIG Thunderbird
Gigabyte GA-7ZX Mobo
ATI All In Wonder Radeon 8500DV Edition
30 gig 7200
640MB SDRam PC133
Creative Sound Blaster Live Sound
Realtek 8139 Nic

I have been through atleast 5 different network cards. It doesn't matter what brand Realtek, Dlink and they all died with the same problem 0 packets received. The network card sends lots but receives nothing. I am on a peer to peer network with 5 computers and they have no problem ever it's only my system that keeps dieing. I can ping myself via ip and computer name but I can't ping any other computer and they can't ping me.

The other day I was playing around with 2 of the dead realtek network cards after many times testing them in other systems still dead, I put them in my system and to no surprise they didn't work still. I was checking the cables made sure they were all good.Changed cables to the switch still same. I then unpluged my switch and pluged it back in while computer was running and they both came alive. I tried this with another one of my dead nic's and it didn't work to bring it alive.

Can someone Please help me

Nathan Pinter

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by stolson

Nathan,

Could be a couple of different things. Since you said you ping around, let's look at tcp/ip first.

What is the address, subnet mask, and default gateway settings? Even though you are on a peer network, you still need to fill in all the information. By telling me you can ping yourself, that means the tcp/ip stack is OK.

Let me ask you this, are you set up for NetBIOS? If not, enable NetBIOS on your machine and another and see if you can see the other PC in the Network Neighborhood.

Also, have you looked at the network card itself to make sure you have a link light? Have you swapped cables and computer drops (if the PCs are located in different rooms)?

Let me know,

Steve Olson

by mikenac

I would try:

Make sure you switch out which port (in the switch) that you are connecting to.

Try putting the NIC in a different PCI slot.

Make sure that you don't have any programs running that may block packets (ZoneAlarm is a big one)

Make sure you are pinging the other computers by IP address and not by name. This way you can eliminate any name resolution issues.

by mikenac

Since you can ping the other computers by IP address, it looks like your "general" networking setup is good.

Make sure that you are in the same WORKGROUP as the other computers.

Also, make sure that you have both the "Client for Microsoft Networks" and the "File and Print Sharing for Microsoft Networks" installed and checked for your "Local Area Connection".

You must also have these enabled on the other computers(these settings are a little different if the other computers are Win9x).

by 14me24u

Thanksbut all of these things are set up and fine. Workgroups are good and Client and F & P Sharing done. All is enabled

by 14me24u

I do have Zone Alarm although it has never been a problem in the past why now? Also have checked and double checked settings etc and all is ok. Otherwise I would be unable to just change the card and get on Network. Tried changing PCI slot no difference. PING works using IP Address and gives a Send 4 and Receive 4 Times OK even though I cant see anyone on the Network.

by mshavrov

I would advice to uninstall Zone Alarm, uninstall all network protocols and services, remove NIC, and uninstall NIC drivers. Then install NIC, NIC drivers and ONLY TCP/IP. Check that you can ping yourself, then check if you can ping neighbors. Start with simpliest things and then go further step-by-step, checking connectivity after each step. Time you will spend doing this will be much less than you spent already trying to replace NIC cards (but sometimes it's more interesting :-).

Good luck.

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