Strange CAT5 Wire Problem

[stonep]

Odd problem, I can't get a certain CAT5 wire to work on a PC which I just recently bought. But if I go back and conect it to the NIC on the my old PC, no problems at all. Many why ask just use the new wire, but the problem is the old wire is stringing accross 100ft to my downstairs so this sorta stinks If I have to replace it. I even installed another NIC on the new PC, it continues to refuse the cat5 wire.

Any clues why this is happening?

Thanks
Guys

 

[ScottMac]

On the non-working PC, are you getting a link light? Is it 10 / 100 / Gig?

What have you tried so far?

How do you have the wires mapped in the connector?


Scott

 

[stonep]

Originally posted by: ScottMac
On the non-working PC, are you getting a link light? Is it 10 / 100 / Gig?

What have you tried so far?

How do you have the wires mapped in the connector?


Scott

Hi scott,

The NIC on the non working pc is a onboard nic from a dell pc intel mobo "broadcom netxterme 57xx gigbit"
I am getting a light with the CAT5 wire plugged in its a very fast light blinking orange color over and over. I've also attached a add-on nic to this pc, a CNET PRO200WL and that also won't work with this CAT5 wire. How could it be something in the PC ITSELF? Very strange.

Once I connect this wire to another pc it suddently works fine, and gets a IP from the NAT server.

The wires on mapped with all 8.

 

[bigfatdonny]

Have you tried connecting another Cat5 cable to your new PC? What happens then?

It seems pretty unlikely that there's a problem with the cable.

I am getting a light with the CAT5 wire plugged in its a very fast light blinking orange color over and over.

Have you run a full virus scan on this computer? This activity could be due to a virus spamming out your network connnections.