Dieing onboard lan?

[swker98]

Hi

i have a Vnf4 nfoce 4 ultra board with onboard

gigybite nic i belive

latly its been acting up so i reinstalled its drivers
still no good

it gives me a random IP adress like 169.
shows the subnet as 255.255.0.0 where it whould be 255.255.255.0

so i manuallt configure it and after reapritng it it workes but i have to repair everytime i startup



i also get network cable unpluged sometimes
then it goes away then it can happionfor 5 minutes strait

any ideas or is it dieing

if so any good cheep nics you can suggest
thanks

 

[DelJo63]

get a 3com 10/100 ... imo, they're the best in the market

 

[Rick]

it gives me a random IP adress like 169.
shows the subnet as 255.255.0.0 where it whould be 255.255.255.0

This is APIPA (Automatic Private IP Addressing). Windows assigns itself a 169 address when no connection to DHCP server can be made. In this case, the DHCP server is probably your router or modem.

i also get network cable unpluged sometimes
then it goes away then it can happionfor 5 minutes strait

I've never seen a software issue cause this - so we can be pretty sure it is hardware. The chances of your onboard NIC failing are very slim though. Have you replaced the cable? Have you tried a different router? It is much more like one of those things would fail first. If you have a second computer, can you test it and see if it suffers the same problems with the same cable? Does it happen often enough to can test it like that? Just some ideas.

 

[Liquidlen]

Make sure you have turned off (UNchecked) "Automatically check settings" In IE > tools >Connections> Lan settings

Or settings similar, anywhere that may overide you manual settings.

 

[swker98]

yea its unchecked



the router is good as i have another pc hookes up

as for the wire

its run through my ceiling so it would be hard to try another, so i would have to try another pc on it

i did have another pc i was trying to rid viruses and such have this similer problem

but i swaped out the NIC and i never had it again but it was a realtek nic whitch probibly failed

my wires is split so maybe it has bacame loose or warn out

so far for the past 4 hours no problem, whitch is strange fore sure