Netgear switch freaking out

I have a Netgear FS524 10/100 unmanaged switch at home. It's worked
fine for years, but yesterday I connected a new machine with a Broadcom
BCM5721 Gigabit NIC to it and soon after the switch "freaked out" and
needed to be reset. By "freaked out", I mean that the activity lights
started blinking erratically and would all go off for a second and
repeat. It would do this until I reset the switch (pulled the plug and
plugged it back in). During this time, it stopped routing packets on
all ports.

Then it would work ok for a few hours and then would happen again and
need to be reset. The new machines are idle and not doing any heavy
network traffic, btw. Is the Netgear just not happy with the Gigabit
NICs? Could it be a cable problem?

Any other ideas?

I'm not really sure what the problem could be but just for the record, I
have a Netgear RT314 Router and it works fine with the Broadcom Gigabit NIC
in my PC.

Does your switch have collision indicator lights? If so, did you notice
there being more collisions when it "freaked out"?

Richard

"Troy Hakala" <troyhakala@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:2005021112193640653%troyhakala@comcastnet...[color=blue]
>I have a Netgear FS524 10/100 unmanaged switch at home. It's worked fine
>for years, but yesterday I connected a new machine with a Broadcom BCM5721
>Gigabit NIC to it and soon after the switch "freaked out" and needed to be
>reset. By "freaked out", I mean that the activity lights started blinking
>erratically and would all go off for a second and repeat. It would do this
>until I reset the switch (pulled the plug and plugged it back in). During
>this time, it stopped routing packets on all ports.
>
> Then it would work ok for a few hours and then would happen again and need
> to be reset. The new machines are idle and not doing any heavy network
> traffic, btw. Is the Netgear just not happy with the Gigabit NICs? Could
> it be a cable problem?
>
> Any other ideas?
>
>[/color]

It does have a collision light but there are no collisions at all.


On 2005-02-11 14:05:51 -0800, "Richard Forester"
<richard_forester(nospam)@msn.com> said:
[color=blue]
> I'm not really sure what the problem could be but just for the record,
> I have a Netgear RT314 Router and it works fine with the Broadcom
> Gigabit NIC in my PC.
>
> Does your switch have collision indicator lights? If so, did you
> notice there being more collisions when it "freaked out"?
>
> Richard
>
> "Troy Hakala" <troyhakala@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:2005021112193640653%troyhakala@comcastnet...[color=green]
>> I have a Netgear FS524 10/100 unmanaged switch at home. It's worked
>> fine for years, but yesterday I connected a new machine with a Broadcom
>> BCM5721 Gigabit NIC to it and soon after the switch "freaked out" and
>> needed to be reset. By "freaked out", I mean that the activity lights
>> started blinking erratically and would all go off for a second and
>> repeat. It would do this until I reset the switch (pulled the plug and
>> plugged it back in). During this time, it stopped routing packets on
>> all ports.
>>
>> Then it would work ok for a few hours and then would happen again and
>> need to be reset. The new machines are idle and not doing any heavy
>> network traffic, btw. Is the Netgear just not happy with the Gigabit
>> NICs? Could it be a cable problem?
>>
>> Any other ideas?[/color][/color]

Maybe you could try setting the speed on the NIC.

Right-click My Computer and select Manage
In Computer Management choose Device Manager and find your NIC
In the properties of the NIC there should be an advanced tab with a property
Speed & Duplex

Try different values other than "Auto", like 100Mb Full or 100Mb Half.

Richard

"Troy Hakala" <troyhakala@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:2005021115235383886%troyhakala@comcastnet...[color=blue]
> It does have a collision light but there are no collisions at all.
>
>
> On 2005-02-11 14:05:51 -0800, "Richard Forester"
> <richard_forester(nospam)@msn.com> said:
>[color=green]
>> I'm not really sure what the problem could be but just for the record, I
>> have a Netgear RT314 Router and it works fine with the Broadcom Gigabit
>> NIC in my PC.
>>
>> Does your switch have collision indicator lights? If so, did you notice
>> there being more collisions when it "freaked out"?
>>
>> Richard
>>
>> "Troy Hakala" <troyhakala@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:2005021112193640653%troyhakala@comcastnet...[color=darkred]
>>> I have a Netgear FS524 10/100 unmanaged switch at home. It's worked fine
>>> for years, but yesterday I connected a new machine with a Broadcom
>>> BCM5721 Gigabit NIC to it and soon after the switch "freaked out" and
>>> needed to be reset. By "freaked out", I mean that the activity lights
>>> started blinking erratically and would all go off for a second and
>>> repeat. It would do this until I reset the switch (pulled the plug and
>>> plugged it back in). During this time, it stopped routing packets on all
>>> ports.
>>>
>>> Then it would work ok for a few hours and then would happen again and
>>> need to be reset. The new machines are idle and not doing any heavy
>>> network traffic, btw. Is the Netgear just not happy with the Gigabit
>>> NICs? Could it be a cable problem?
>>>
>>> Any other ideas?[/color][/color]
>
>[/color]



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