A strange networking issue which has to do with BIOS settings!

[orenm]

Hi,

Well, a strange thing has happened to me yesterday.

I have on my desktop two network cards, One for the aDSL connection and the other is to connect my laptop to a small LAN. All is working fine.

Then, I was reading Tom's Hardware regarding the BIOS tweaking, and I thought to try it.
I tweaked the BIOS as Tom's suggested (except for the CAS settings and I m using also a generic sdrams together with the mushkin's ones) and then when I entered into windows 2k (SP2), I could not get ping from my laptop nor the aDSL modem. I made sure hundreds of times that the network settings are accurate, I also tried it from my XP-RC1 .. the same thing .. ME .. ditto!

I simply couldnt access the internet via the NIC that is connected to the aDSL nor could access my laptop via the other NIC. Two actions which I had no problems whatsoever to do prior to messing with the bios settings. When I tried pinging the laptop, it just timed out, same thing happened when I tried to ping my aDSL modem..

I rebooted and loaded the BIOS defaults, entered my Win2K .. and everything was back to normal.

I am wondering if anyone has any clue which setting caused this.

I were using the following hardware:

Asus A7V133 @Duron800Mhz
1x256MB Mushkin Rev-2 PC-133 CAS2
2x128MB Generic PC-133
Asus V8200 GeForce 3
Philips Acoustic Edge
IBM 60GXP 40gigs Harddrive
Yamaha CDRW2100S
3COM Etherlink XL 10/100 PCI NIC - aDSL
3COM Etherlink XL 10/100 PCI for Complete PC Management - For the LAN

I guess that should be enough...

Any ideas?

Oren.

 

[Electric Amish]

No idea unless you messed with the IRQ settings in the bios.

amish

 

[bacillus]

<< I tweaked the BIOS as Tom's suggested >>


well what exactly did you alter??

 

[knutp]

I had that problem when I changed the pci latency timer lower than 32. Set it to 32 and see if that works.