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I manage an Internet Cafe with 25 workstation and 1 server, before we have only 11 PC's connected to 16 plus 3com switch, due to customer demand we add additional 14 PC's + another 3com 16 plus switch, the problem is the newly add PC's is always encountered a network card failure everytime the customer restart the PC they used. the settings is good b-coz when i try to connect to the nearest cable it's working good... is there any suggestion regarding my problem....

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by thechas

Assuming that you are running Windows, run Windows Update, and check for an updated driver for the NIC.

While Windows 2000 and XP take over IRQ and other resource assignments, if the NIC is sharing a hardware IRQ with another device, it can cause problems.

Chas

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