Realtek 8111e vs. Precise

[Basil Chupin]

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.
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> (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.

BC

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