IC7-G Ethernet

[Nebor]

I'm at wits end here... In the past 6 days, I've been to Fry's 6 times... sometimes multiple times a day. I've gone through 3 sets of Corsair RAM, and now I've moved from the Asus P4C800 Deluxe to the Abit IC7-G motherboard.... I'm tired of working on my computer, damnit, I'm tired of it. I want a computer I can USE. Before it was freezing... now my freakin onboard NIC seems totally screwed...

Here's the deal, I can plug it into my cable modem and everything... it detects fine, I installed the drivers from the Abit website... But when I go to use the internet, It's EXTREMELY slow. I mean, we're talkin' about 30 seconds for google to load. Other pages time out before they load.... So I'm like, dang cable company. Call them up... They say, well, we have a great connection to your modem... but when we try to connect to your computer, we're getting a 10% packet loss... But we don't support user hardware, so goodbye. So I change my modem from cat5 over to USB... it works fine. What's the deal? I could just shrug it off... but the IC7-G did cost more than the regular one... and I don't use the other 2 SATA adapters... And I think things should work when you buy them... I'm freakin fed up with the world. Please, tell me how to fix this NIC. I believe it's the Intel Pro/1000 CT

 

[Beatnik]

I have the IC7-G, just got it going under Linux.
Didn't get the Serillel to fly, but didn't need it.
The CSA didn't get auto-detected, but once I put
the e1000 driver in the kernel, it saw it.

It negotiated 100FDX with an HP switch I'm using just fine.
UP/DOWN was between 70 - 90 megabits-per-second.
So, seems to work.

What kind of HUB/SWITCH are you using?
Can you check and make sure it is set to "AUTO" and
not nailed to a specific speed??? Just a thought.

 

[Nebor]

It is set on Automatically Negotiate Speed.... I'm not using a switch, I'm connected directly to my D-Link DCM-200.

I loaded the drivers off of the Abit website...

Wierd that USB works fine but ethernet doesn't...

 

[Beatnik]

You might hit the INTEL website and see if they have the
driver there... Since the CSA is going to be slightly different than
anything ever before, I was thinking maybe INTEL got it right for
their own boards...

 

[GreenMartian]

Why don't you try the official Abit user forums? I think your problems have been discussed there (do a search for ic7 and network).

Abit user forums

 

[Dodgah]

I bought my Abit IC7-G less than a week ago and have had some real annoying probs, including the built-in Ethernet. However that was easily solved with when i used the drivers on the Abit Driver CD that came with the mobo instead of the ones from Abits homepage. hope that solves your problem...

 

[Nebor]

Because any thread I try to open on the abit forum gives me this:
There seems to have been a slight problem with the ABIT USA Forums database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

 

[Nebor]

SO does anyone have ANY ideas about what to do?

I looked at the Intel Pro software, and the cable test tells me that I'm getting hundreds of thousands of Idle Errors... What the heck does that mean? Does that mean my cable is bad? It worked just fine w/ the 3com gigabit LAN on my Asus P4C800 Deluxe.... Any ideas? I've tried the drivers that came w/ the board, the abit website drivers, and the intel website drivers, none of them fix my problem... Web pages simply don't load... they'll load maybe one or two small graphics, and that's it... the cable company told me I'm losing 10% packets between my modem and my computer.... Any ideas at all?

 

[GreenMartian]

The Abit forums should be up soon (monday=working day). I seem to remember one person having the exact same problem as you and he solved it by changing the physical cable between his modem and computer.

 

[Nebor]

I got it figured out... My ethernet was connected directly to my cable modem, and the auto negotiate speed thing doesn't work that way. I just had to set it to 10mbps half duplex. Everything works great now! None of the problems of my Asus board!