motherboard NIC goes bad?

[imaheadcase]

I've never had a onboard NIC go bad, but today my Windows Home Server rebooted, and now it has no access and NIC card in device manager has a ? on it. No internet access on it when i try to use it for that.

So the question is, what is a good NIC card to get for WHS.

I assume the onboard NIC stopped working because of all the traffic (streaming movies, Utorrent on 24/7, etc). So has to be reliable card, i have 10/100/1000 cards and switches through out house already..

 

[jlazzaro]

have you tried re-loading the windows drivers? your NIC cannot go bad due to traffic load.

if it truly is bad hardware, i've always had good luck with Intel NICs. you can find others cheaper, but see http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833106121

 

[imaheadcase]

Yah i reinstalled the drivers and still was messed up. The activity lights near the jack are not working at all, still has the yellow ? next to it in device manager. I'll order that card thanks.

It was just so weird how it went out though, all of a sudden server reset and it stop working. lol

 

[thecrecarc]

When did this happen to you? Because just today, my nic started experiencing major issues. After multiple driver reinstalls and head banging, I'm think my mobo nic died too. Its a stretch to think our cases are related given different pcs, os (I'm running 7), but who knows.

 

[llee]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2097442

Same thing with me

At least I now have an excuse to introduce wireless to my PC.

 

[Nothinman]

The first thing I usually do in odd cases like this is to boot a Linux Live CD, if the network works there you know it's a Windows problem and it usually is.

 

[llee]

I got my NIC to work again. Go to the device manager and in the properties dialog box of the NIC, enable boot from S1, S3, S4, and S5 (3 or so boxes that you need to check). See if that helps.