Daniel Lee Kruse wrote:

>Hi,
>My system is:
>A7V880 motherboard
>Athlon K7 3200+ CPU
>1024 MB RAM in a dual channel configuration
>LSI Logic 22320 Dual channel adapter
>Seagate 73 GB hard drive
>3Com 3c905-tx ethernet card
>Matrox P750 video card
>
>Symptoms:
>Initially, the ethernet card wouldn't communicate to the router.  Then
>progression to longer down time on the ethernet card.  The next
>symptom is spontaneous rebooting under XPee.  This then carried over
>to eCS (dual boot system).  Today, I notice the system, after the
>spontaneous reboot, wouldn't come back up.  The power light was still
>on but acted like it was in a suspended state - like the light is on
>but no one is home.
>
>I've swapped the ethernet card for another of the same make/model so I
>know it isn't the original being bad as the symptoms persisted with
>the second ethernet card.
>
>I'm not sure what else to try.  Any ideas what the cause is?
>Thanks in advance for any help,
>Daniel Lee Kruse
>
>
>  
>
I'd be looking for the latest firmware (bios) updates for both your
motherboard and the Network card, with these kinds of symptoms. If the card
has "wake-on-LAN" capability, turn it off as well.

Cheers/2

Ed.




 
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