HOT network card? long periods of SLOW & erratic speed?

[intoran]

Hi, I noticed during large transfers (1-3gigs) from my workstation to my server. That after a minute or so, it slows down to 10Mbit speed. I am running a Intel Pro/100 on through a 100Mbit switch to another Intel Pro/100 in my Win2k server. I am running WinME, and a Duron 700 o/c to 900. Overclocking has no affect as I have had this problem either way. It starts off at a ridiculously low remaining minutes like 2, for a 1.5gig transfer, then shoots up to 60, and changes around a lot. My mouse gets unbearably slow also. So I was going to pull the NIC right after the transfer, and its hot as hell. Almost too hot to touch. Wondering what my problem might be, and is it related to the heat? Also, WinME has no bearing, tried clean installs of WinME and 98SE, various VIA4in1 drivers, video drivers, and IRQ's. Thanks for ANY help!

Sam

 

[Dromer]

I've got the same problem.
Tried another nic/slot/irc/kable
System = Asus A7v
duron 600@850
Os Winme


if anybody knows a solution plz

 

[intoran]

I am running an A7V also, I have an MX300 soundcard. What do you have? Maybe theres a connection here.

Sam

 

[Dromer]

this is my config
Asus A7v
duron 6002850 1.85v
Asus V6600 Deluxe 32 mb Sgram ( 5.16 Asus drivers )
Soundblaster live
Compaq Nic / Realtek nic / 3com nic ( tried them all )
WD 30 GB hd
Plextor 8x4x32
Asus 50x cdrom
192 Mb ram
that's about it .

 

[Dromer]

Things are getting stranger.
I don't have the problem with a ftp connection.
Who knows the answer.

 

[obenton]

That much heat very, very bad. Better find out what's generating it and fix it.