Rabbit25 wrote:

> Hi,
> My nforce ethernet adapter 'crashes' during games like guild wars or
> warcraft 3.
> the connection suddenly gets lost and windows pops up with a little
> balloon saying 'network cable unplugged'.
> Whenever that happens, a simple reboot of the system won't help: i
> need to unplug the power cord for not less than 20 seconds to make the
> ethernet adapter work again.
> The problem doesn't occur when I'm just browsing the internet or using
> ICQ.
> I installed all current drivers (Ethernet NRM Driver 4.82 & 5.09,
> tried both; BIOS version 1014; Nforce Drivers 6.69.)
> I also bypassed the router and plugged the cable directly into the
> cable modem and deactivated all firewalls . The problem still
> persists.

> My System:
> AMD 2x 3800
> Asus A8N Sli
> Win XP 64
> 2 Gb Kingston
> 200 Gb Samsung Spinpoint

Things to try, doing only one thing at a time and testing after each
change:

1. Swap out your ethernet cable for a known-working one.
2. Check the settings on your NIC. Is it set to automatic? Maybe you set
it to half-duplex? I've got Asus boards with that NIC on two machines
and never set anything special, but it doesn't hurt for you to check.
3. Try a PCI network card. You can get a decent one for under $20usd.

Malke
--
MS-MVP Windows User/Shell
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic"

I had a similar problem like this half a year ago. I was on Road Runner
cable service and my Internet would crash during online games. When surfing
the web, my internet speed was down to a crawl. Every now and then, usually
around an hour to an hour and a half, my cable modem would completely crash
and I had to unplug it along with my Linksys router.
Back to your problem. Some of the things I tried included:
1. Updating the firmware of my router to its latest version. No luck.
2. Tried using a new network cable. No luck.
3. Used a different computer with different configurations. No luck.
4. Called Road Runner to reset my modem. No luck.
5. Bypassed my router and connected directly to cable modem. No luck.
6. Had service technician come to check it out. Basically did all the other
things I did and concluded that I basically had to deal wih the slow speed
because he did not know what was going on (very knowledeable huh) No luck.
7. Finally, I came to a conclusion that my cable modem was at fault and
exchanged it for a new one. Voila....case solved.

Basically you can try doing all those things I just mentioned along with the
other solutions other techies post here. If none work, you can suspect the
cable modem to be at fault and exchange it for a new one. Hopefully, they
can give you a newer version of their modem in case your's is outdated.

"Rabbit25" wrote in message
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> Hi,
> My nforce ethernet adapter 'crashes' during games like guild wars or
> warcraft 3.
> the connection suddenly gets lost and windows pops up with a little
> balloon saying 'network cable unplugged'.
> Whenever that happens, a simple reboot of the system won't help: i need
> to unplug the power cord for not less than 20 seconds to make the
> ethernet adapter work again.
> The problem doesn't occur when I'm just browsing the internet or using
> ICQ.
> I installed all current drivers (Ethernet NRM Driver 4.82 & 5.09, tried
> both; BIOS version 1014; Nforce Drivers 6.69.)
> I also bypassed the router and plugged the cable directly into the
> cable modem and deactivated all firewalls . The problem still persists.
>
> I'd appreciate any help.
>
> Greets Bojan
>
> __________________
> My System:
> AMD 2x 3800
> Asus A8N Sli
> Win XP 64
> 2 Gb Kingston
> 200 Gb Samsung Spinpoint
>
> Bojan
>

My NForce ethernet drivers and applications I installed crashed all the
time on my Windows 2003 x64, which is the same as Windows XP x64
although I had the latest drivers. I had to disable the NVidia Firewall
and uninstall the NForce Firewall application.

I have the Deluxe motherboard so I have dual NICs and now I use the
other Marvell Yukon Gigabit card instead. With the Marvell Yukon card I
had problems sometimes that the Network stops, but I haven't
experienced that since I upgraded to the latest Marvell x64 drivers.