Funky NIC !! PC freezes/resumes constantly when its enabled.

[blavergne]

Hi,
I'm trying to fix a friends PC but cant quite seem to figure this problem out. His PC was behaving normally up until a few days ago. Now, everything freezes for apx. half a minute to a minute and then resumes. I've checked a whole bunch of possible reasons why this might happen, and I noticed that the problem goes away when the NIC is disabled. I tried another NIC, but it gave me the same problem. Does anyone know what exactly is going on, and how can I fix it? (Could a more expensive NIC do the trick?)

Thank you,
Barry LaVergne Hope my post helped!

 

[schu]

I had the same problem with a 3COM 3c905b.

However, after rinstalling driver a few times, I found that it was unrelated an I had a shared IRQ. In other words my NIC and USB device was sharing the same IRQ.

I redistributed the IRQs and now it works fine, maybe this is your problem also.

 

[paulwood]

If you can, try the nic in another slot, some really don't like sharing resources with some other cards.

 

[cdogg]

blavergne,

Does this occur only during bootup? If so, this is natural since the NIC card will spend 30-45 seconds looking for a response from a LAN connection. If the user is not connected to a LAN/WAN, then disabling this card in device manager is the only way to prevent this (aside from creating a separate hardware profile).

Now, if the user is always using the NIC card (such as for a DSL line), then sometimes this is unavoidable since the amount of time it freezes will depend on many factors (speed of system and efficient response from LAN/WAN connection). This "freezing" is when the card is trying to communicate...

I've noticed this is less prevalent when using Win2K or WinME

 

[study77]

Yes , Iagree with the answer up
changing slot will help you
but before that goto safe mode then to the device manage & remove the network Card listeed there