lmacmil
join:2001-01-26 South Bend, IN
| Large file copy locks up onboard NIC Just did a major hardware upgrade (pretty much everything but the drives) and a fresh XP Pro install on my main desktop. It is currently attached to my network via PCI wireless card and my backup desktop is cable connected to the router. The backup machine has an nVidia nForce-400 (socket A) chipset with onboard LAN, also XP Pro. Using the latest nVidia driver, dated 2007, mobo BIOS is also latest available.
Trying to transfer all my pix and MP3s (about 15GB) and after about 1GB of file transfers, the onboard NIC locks up and I lose the network connection. It does not respond to ipconfig /release and /renew from command prompt, nor from Windows attempt to repair the connection. The only thing that works is a reboot.
Any thoughts? My current work-around is a flash drive and I may hardware the new PC to the router until I have all the files transferred but that's not real convenient. |