Being dropped off a network....no hardware failures detected

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Original Poster: Graelswolf
Originally Posted: 2002-08-17, 7:49 pm

I was amazed when I found out how much this little trick can make a difference.

If you are running a box with a nic...and there are more each day, two things to bear in mind that will keep things connected.

1. Have the nic installed as close to pci #0 as possible....stare long on hard at the mommyboard if need be.

2. DO NOT install the nic in a pci slot that is adjacent to a ISA slot that has a card in it, nor the pci slot adjacent to the agp slot.

Rule number 2 applies even if you are using a mommyboard that uses interal video.

The workstation jockey at work spent two weeks over the CFO's machine trying to resolve a drop off the network issue. After he moved the card to pci #0, we cant make it crash or drop now.

Go figure