Spec me a NIC...

z0mbi3

z0mbi3

z0mbi3

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So I'm sitting here irradiating my nuts after the onboard lan on my PC just died. At the moment my router is sat on top of the pc and is connected to it by wireless.

In hindsight I should have seen this coming. The pc was booting with no lan connection occasionaly but a reboot would fix it, but sadly not any more.

So I need a new NIC. Nothing particularly fancy, although I am power conscious these days so if there's something energy efficient that would be good. Oh and it would be nice if it could do WOL.

So any recommendations?
 
Have a gander around the popular auction site for a half decent Intel Pro1000 PCI/PCI-E card can normally pick them up for £10-15 (they're only about £25 new mind) though to be honest any old card these days should do you.

I take it you've also checked it's not just something silly like a duff driver?
 
Drivers are up to date, I don't get any network activity lights either. Routers fine mind as everything else connected to it works and swapping ports around makes no difference.
 
I notice you have a Gigabyte MB.
One of my PCs with a Gigabyte MB (can't remember the model) was also having NIC (and IDE) problems that would be solved by rebooting. Eventually I stopped using the onboard IDE after replacing a dead IDE drive with a SATA and my NIC started working!

If you're going to use a regular PCI slot rather than a PCIe slot for a replacement NIC, the PCI will limit the max speed to ~33Mbytes/sec.
 
Tomsk said:
I notice you have a Gigabyte MB.
One of my PCs with a Gigabyte MB (can't remember the model) was also having NIC (and IDE) problems that would be solved by rebooting. Eventually I stopped using the onboard IDE after replacing a dead IDE drive with a SATA and my NIC started working!

If you're going to use a regular PCI slot rather than a PCIe slot for a replacement NIC, the PCI will limit the max speed to ~33Mbytes/sec.
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Perhaps you mean 133MB/sec for PCI...
 
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