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by john.chaney

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Installed ECS P4VXASD2 mobo with intel 2.0Ghz chip on WIN98 system. The LAN connection will intermittently fail after 20-30 min of use. All other PCs on the LAN are able to access the router and print server. The system will begin to operate after 30-50 minutes or after a reboot of the system and router. I believe it is a software issue but can find no reference on any of the sites. Any help would be grealy appreciated. John

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

Its possibly a software issue, but often components that become intermittant after a certain amount of time, fail due to heat causing them to fail.

You may find that the card is "on the edge" and that only a small difference in heat causesit to fail - hence the operating again once it cools down.

In this case, the argument is even stonger as the other servers can still access the resources.

Try replacing the nic.

Cheers,
Tim.

by john.chaney

Good answer, but unfortunately does not work in this case. The new Mobo has an onboard LAN that initially exhibited the behavior. In order to eliminate a bad LAN chip, I installed a good NIC, then disabled the onboard in both WIN98 and BIOS and deleted al drivers, etc.. for it. Same problem. Also, when I put the old MOBO back in, (w/AMD 1GHz - now there is a heat problem!), the nic works okay. Thanks for the advice and I will reseat the card.

by wlbowers

Could be a bad cable with an iffy connection.
Or it could be a bad port in your switch. I had a
Dlink that did that.

Good Luck Lee

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