NIC stops working with no errors

[MichaelJ]

Hi,

We have a Windows2000 Domain which contains 3 servers and every so
often 1 of the servers will stop communicating with the others. The
NIC appears to become hung. If I disable the card and try to re-enable
it then I get "Connection Failed!". Sometimes if I run ipconfig I get
no IP information back. There are no errors in the event viewer and
Drwatson came up clean. Internally on the box everything works fine
but I am unable to even ping any external device. There are no
firewalls, no DHCP and the servers are running FP4 with all the latest
hotfixes. Terminal Services is installed on all.

The only way to clear the problem is to (surprise, surprise!) reboot!
Each server is fitted with 2 NICs. I have tried them all. All the
servers and all the NICs on those servers have been affected at least
once.

Any idea how to debug this problem?

Michael J

 

[somebody]

On 17 Jun 2004 10:31:43 -0700, (e-mail address removed) (MichaelJ)
wrote:

In device Manager locate the NIC card and open the properties page
and go to the power management tab, if the option to 'Allow the
computer to turn off this device to save power' is checked, uncheck
it.

 

[Pavel A.]

How exactly these machines are connected?
What hubs, switches etc? What type of cables?
Are the netcard settings (10/100 mode, duplex etc.) compatible to that?

--PA