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by natesarah

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I am working with a client that is having a problem with a network adapter. The PC is running Win2000 and sits on a small network. Every couple of days, the network adapter suddenly becomes disabled. I know it is not the adapter itself, because it is the second one I have put in. Unfortunatly, I have no other PCI slots available to move it to. I also tried to assign a new network device ID, but this did not help. Any ideas???

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by colin_seel

At a guess the IRQ is the problem try experimenting with the bios settings
before reaching windows Legacy?

Check the Settings for conflicts

Also check if Other devices are in the PCI in the Device Manager and they have a yellow Exclamation mark remove and reboot to bios allocate IRQ also you might look at Plug & Play in the BIOS or Enable or disable and test

by klingon

i'v had one similar problem (though not exact) and the only fix i came up with was to go into Device Mgr, go to Properties of the NIC, and go to the Advanced tab. The Value of Media type is probably set to Hardware Default. This is what was screwingme up, so I changed it to the the correct value (100mbs) and the problem never came back.

Hope that helps.

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