Realtek 8111e vs. Precise

[Ric Moore]

On 03/06/2013 08:50 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 05/03/13 05:26, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>> I picked up a new motherboard last Friday, an MSI 970A-G46, that has
>> the noted LAN controller on board, and when I first brought it up it
>> ran flawlessly.  Saturday morning I replaced one of my DVD writers and
>> my secondary hard disk, and the LAN died.  I thought it was the
>> hardware, since it was working before the power cycle, but I got an
>> exchange yesterday afternoon and it has the same problem.
> [pruned]
>
>> (I temporarily solved the problem by putting a PCI NIC in the box, and
>> that works fine, but it's old 10/100 and I prefer not to have to use
>> add-in cards for that sort of thing.)
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> MR
>
> I just read Colin's post where he mentions the NIC and realised that I
> missed reading your opening post.
>
> For what it's worth, I built my own computer early last year. The
> motherboard is a Gigabyte. Exactly the same thing happened to me: the
> onboard LAN collapsed on the 3rid or 4th day following me doing some
> hardware additions. I didn't bother trying to work out the whys of it
> and just went out and bought a 1Gb PCIe NIC and installed it.
>
> In your case, did you really mean that you installed a PCI card or a
> PCIe card?
>
> For best performance, install the NIC as close to the cpu as possible.
> If it is a PCIe card then there is such a slot almost (well.... you know
> what I mean :-) ) on top of the cpu.

I missed that as well... and I had picked up a used MSI mobo for cheap, 
with a two core Intel CPU. Same thing. It died. I jammed in a addon NIC 
card and forgot about it.

Ha! Come to think on it again, I think it died because of that stamped 
out piece of tin plate that guards the output ports, that you jam into 
the case, had a finger stuck into the NIC output jack and fried it. Ever 
since I just throw them away. <cackles> Ric





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