NIC causing BSOD

System: AN8 SLI, AMD 64 3800, 2 GB Patriot, Geforce 6800 GT 256, 2 PATA
DVD drives, 40GB PATA HD (boot), 200 GB PATA HD, 200GB SATA HD. Win XP
SP2 32-bit.

A few weeks ago I got my first BSOD in years. It happended once and
then did not happen again for a few days. Now, the computer starts up
and just after logging in it goes to one of several BS. The ones that I
remember off of the top of my head are 50, BE, and 8E.

After much trial and error, it seem that the onboard NIC is the
culpret. When disabled in BIOS, the system boots and is stable. Just as
a note, I have swapped out the RAM and had the same problem, so I think
that it is safe to rule that out. Also passes memtest (though it did
hang once during memtest)

The system has the current NForce drivers and BIOS. Windows is fully
up to date. Passes virus and adware scans.

I have read on the NVIDIA forum that there might be conflict between
the SATA controller and the NIC but I have not had a chance to fool
around with combinations to see if I can find an SATA port that does
not give this problem. In principle, I do not think that I should have
to. If I try that and it does work, the board is going to be returned
or sold.

Any thoughts or similar experiences?

 

Just off hand, one would think such a compatibility issue could be
fixed in software. Perhaps this is a windows 64 bit problem?

Also be aware that different NIC cards use different address maps.
There are basically two incarnations of address maps. Ones that use
DMA and ones that don't. The more expensive cards use DMA and use a
much larger address space. Perhaps you are using a card that is using
DMA?

Forrest

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On 2 Feb 2006 11:06:15 -0800, ""

 

I'd suspect a bad driver. Especially the way you are getting a variety
of error messages. I wouldn't think that it would be a hardware level
conflict, but a bad driver might do it.

Mort

 

You have 2 hard-disks. Disconnect the system-disk.
Format a system-partition on your SATA disk. Set BIOS to boot first
from this disk, then CD-ROM ( If you have Partition Magic you can push
the other partitions on this disk readily around if you need to make
room for a system-partition. ) Now do a clean-install of the OS and
drivers. See if the problem repeats. Do not yet add any other
programs; one of those could be the culprit.

No point in returning the board without completely eliminating
software issues first.

John Lewis