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Ok, so I had my main system below clocked to about 2.6 and was running like a champ, nice and stable. Not the greatest 3d marks, Somwhere around 22k on '01 and 11k on '03. Anyways, 2 days after building it I wake up to find that I can't access the net. I play it off as a dsl issue and has some errands to run anyways.
So I come back and still no access, I check my other PC that is running off of that router and it works fine... Uh oh....
Well I checked device manager and there's a conflict in the driver, so I dowload the latest driver, uninstall/reinstall the driver and BAM! NIC reinstalled, but not internet access. I could not access anything via IE or network shares. Ok, well the NICs activity light are blinking, but not much, so I scan for viruses, I did have it running Prime all night long to check stability with no firewall softare or antivirus... No go.
So I chalk it up to Win XP being borked. So I reinstall (forgot I had another NIC to try).
No go, now it doesn't even show up in device manager.
So I slap in a PCI NIC and it works great.... ANYWAYS.... HERE'S THE CURRENT PROBLEM:
The SM Bus controller in system devices has a conflict. I reinstall the driver and it still has a conflict (from the CD and the net). I also notice this high pitched noise coming from the mobo kinda like if your CRT is going dead. I called and ordered another board and I'll have it today. Here is the funky thing.... I didn't think of running 3d mark until last night since this problem started.... My friggin score went down 3,000... yes, 3K points. Holy cow! This sound like it's a mobo issue? I'm hoping so, guess I'll find out tonight. What's your take on this people?
So I come back and still no access, I check my other PC that is running off of that router and it works fine... Uh oh....
Well I checked device manager and there's a conflict in the driver, so I dowload the latest driver, uninstall/reinstall the driver and BAM! NIC reinstalled, but not internet access. I could not access anything via IE or network shares. Ok, well the NICs activity light are blinking, but not much, so I scan for viruses, I did have it running Prime all night long to check stability with no firewall softare or antivirus... No go.
So I chalk it up to Win XP being borked. So I reinstall (forgot I had another NIC to try).
No go, now it doesn't even show up in device manager.
So I slap in a PCI NIC and it works great.... ANYWAYS.... HERE'S THE CURRENT PROBLEM:
The SM Bus controller in system devices has a conflict. I reinstall the driver and it still has a conflict (from the CD and the net). I also notice this high pitched noise coming from the mobo kinda like if your CRT is going dead. I called and ordered another board and I'll have it today. Here is the funky thing.... I didn't think of running 3d mark until last night since this problem started.... My friggin score went down 3,000... yes, 3K points. Holy cow! This sound like it's a mobo issue? I'm hoping so, guess I'll find out tonight. What's your take on this people?
