On board NIC dying?

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Weaksauce
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I was doing some web surfing, BT'ing and ssh'ing last night and all in a sudden by connection dropped and the "network cable unplugged" message start coming up. So I restarted and tried a few things and still the same. What's weird tho is the "network cable unplugged" message is flashing, seems the moment it detects the connection it dropped.

It is the on board NIC from a dfi lan party board. Anything else I can try before I put an old ethernet card in or to reformat XP and see?

I just installed a new Raptor SATA drive a few days ago and did a fresh install of XP pro and everything have been working fine until last night.
 
I would try the old nic card for a day first. Never know it may be something else.
 
What's your computer connected to? Directly to cable modem, to router, etc. It could be a fault at those ends, or your cable could be borked too. A few variables to consider.
 
I don't suppose this is a DFI nforce4 board is it? if so, that totally explains it. I've seen the nic's fail over and over on nforce4 boards. I just use a linksys nc100 (available in a garbage can near you) and it works fine, since nothing I do needs more than ~20Mbps.
 
It is indeed a DFI nforce4 board!

It is connected to a router but my other PC works fine, tried to connect my troubled PC to the known good port on the router, no luck.
 
Try another ethernet cable before you assume your hardware is bad....... :cool:

Good Luck - B.B.S.
 
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