PC-DL Deluxe NIC

[Pip]

Hi,

My PC-DL deluxe BSODs before it reaches XPPro when I enable the onboard NIC
...... it works perfectly well without it ......

I've had the machine stripped down to 1xHD (tried both the onboard IDE and a
HPT372 RAID), 1x256Mb, 1xCPU, AGP, all onboard disabled except NIC - it
still BSODs during OS install.

..... I suspect it's a faulty board .... although the NIC does mutter
something about "Boot agent not initialised" or something .... I'm guessing
that's not a problem as I'm not doing a network boot


Does anyone agree it could be a faulty motherboard? Any other suggestions
before I replace it???

TIA

PC-DL Deluxe
1x2.4Ghz Xeon 533
128Mb Abit GeForce Ti4200 8x
512Mb Corsair Tx 2700 CAS2
3x60Gb IBM ATA-100
3COM 3C905B NIC
Haupage WinTV
CL Audigy2
Adaptec 2960UW
HPT372 RAID Controller

 

[Ben Pope]

Hi,

My PC-DL deluxe BSODs before it reaches XPPro when I enable the onboard
NIC ..... it works perfectly well without it ......

I've had the machine stripped down to 1xHD (tried both the onboard IDE
and a HPT372 RAID), 1x256Mb, 1xCPU, AGP, all onboard disabled except NIC
- it still BSODs during OS install.

.... I suspect it's a faulty board .... although the NIC does mutter
something about "Boot agent not initialised" or something .... I'm
guessing that's not a problem as I'm not doing a network boot


Does anyone agree it could be a faulty motherboard? Any other suggestions
before I replace it???

Grab the latest drivers from 3Com, boot to safe mode and install them.

I would assume a software error over a hardware error first... you haven't
mentioned any attempts at fixing software.

Ben

 

[Pip]

The 3-com works fine ... it's the onboard Intel 82547EI Gigabit that makes
XP BSOD

.... The machine is currently running using the 3-com instead of the intel.
As soon as I enable the Intel in BIOS ... XP BSODs during the boot process.

I've installed the latest intel chipset drivers and SP1'd before enabling
the onboard NIC .... still BSOD's



Thanks

 

[Ben Pope]

The 3-com works fine ... it's the onboard Intel 82547EI Gigabit that makes
XP BSOD

Ahh, ok.

... The machine is currently running using the 3-com instead of the intel.
As soon as I enable the Intel in BIOS ... XP BSODs during the boot
process.

I've installed the latest intel chipset drivers and SP1'd before enabling
the onboard NIC .... still BSOD's

Can you get into safe mode (without networking, obviously!)?

Is the NIC listed in device manager?

If yes to both, what happens if you disable it and reboot?

Ben

 

[Pip]

Just tried it .... safe mode got as far as device agp440 .... then rebooted
.....

thx for the idea thou!

 

[mckaygroup]

I'm having trouble with the internal NIC as well, but on W2K. It
occasionally decides there's another machine on the network with the same
name as one it's connected to, and it occasionally looses mapped drive
connections to various servers.

I believe at this point there is a problem with the integrated NIC.

I too will be switching to a card...

mckaygroup

Just tried it .... safe mode got as far as device agp440 .... then rebooted
....

thx for the idea thou!