Nic's Conflict?

[DWk]

its second time this happens to me:

i have two network cards. Right now its the second time in less than a month that the network cards just STOP WORKING, and i gotta format so that they work again....

this time i was trying to do some ICS with my computer as server...

last time it was nothing i made...

any ideas?

DWk

[Virtualbody1234]

Why do you have 2 network cards? Are you trying to share an internet connection? Is it highspeed? Perhaps a router would solve the problem.

[DWk]

Originally posted by Virtualbody1234@12 October 2003 - 06:03
Why do you have 2 network cards? Are you trying to share an internet connection? Is it highspeed? Perhaps a router would solve the problem.

yes... ICS=Internet Connection Sharing

yea i know a router would be the solution....but over here they are expensive...

im just wondering if any1 knows if the cards can have conflict between each other or something...

re-installing the drivers doesnt work..... i HAVE to format the computer to make em work (perhaps corrupt drivers....) but if this happens too often its gonna break me

DWk

[DWk]

oh and yes its cable...

DWk

[Virtualbody1234]

Did you try moving the cards around, into other PCI slots?

[DWk]

not yet.....but one is an onboard card and the other is a pci card....

you think moving the card will help? i mean, what does it matter?

DWk

[the_faceman]

i had an IRQ conflict with my NIC's (although both of mine are in PCI slots, didn't have an onboard one, my motherboard is about 2-3 years old now). Moving one of them solved the problem, and my computer shares the cable connection fine now. it's worth a shot.

EDIT* - This page may help you, i think i used a similar one to diagnose the problem when it happened to me last year IRQ Sharing Help

[Wolfmight]

Yea, my new mobo had an onboard LAN nic, but i forgot and used my ol linksys nic also.
My computer was completely unstable.. it would just.. Freeze without thawing out lol.
When i removed the linksys nic and started usein the onboard nic that's a realtek modle.. everything was back to normal . (onboard nic works the same anyways)

[DWk]

rgr thanks...ill try these and see what happens....

DWk

[kurtsl0an]

Originally posted by DWk@12 October 2003 - 13:26
yes... ICS=Internet Connection Sharing

yea i know a router would be the solution....but over here they are expensive...

im just wondering if any1 knows if the cards can have conflict between each other or something...

re-installing the drivers doesnt work..... i HAVE to format the computer to make em work (perhaps corrupt drivers....) but if this happens too often its gonna break me

DWk

u can use a $20 dollar hub and use ics. get rid of the second nic if moving pci slots doesn't work. cuz each port is assigned an irq - moving it may fix ur prob.