What the hell's wrong with my computer!?

[Addikt]

Ok, this is a rather unique problem that I have never encountered before on ANY system that I have ever worked with. I just built a new conroe-based system with the following specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
OCZ PC2-6400 Platinum XTC
OCZ GamerXtreme 600W
ATI X1900XT
WD Raptor 10K 75GB SATA
Asus P5WDH-DX

Anyways, the board has 2 Ethernet ports, I connect to one and try to connect to the internet, it works, however only for about 30 seconds or so before losing the connection. I can go anywhere lightning fast for about 30 seconds then I get stuck with the status bar showing me that it's connecting to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx; the website in IP form. I live in a residence and everything has been configured to their specs, I know that the connection isn't down because I have tested my roommate's to make sure that it works since we are on the same LAN.

After that happened I thought the port might be faulty, so I plugged the ethernet cord into the other ethernet port and lo and behold, I have my internet restored, only to have it time out on me again in about 30 seconds. Anyone come across this error before? Thinking it might be bad drivers I downloaded the latest version from the company website, Marvell and it still doesn't work.

It might still actually work, but it just slows to a crawl since I was still able to complete a Windows update by leaving it idle for a couple hours while it downloaded all the files.

I've also noticed that it takes a lot of time for the system to post, and sometimes it doesn't even boot to windows, I just get a blinking hash marker. In addition to this CHKDSK is running now less than a percent a minute.

 

[raincityboy]

Some other people have had that problem
Try a new driver from here
nvm missed hwere you said you tried that


also read over this thread

 

[Addikt]

Thanks a lot for the reply. I didn't try that particular driver, I tried another one. I will give that one a shot and see how it works. I think that that page will solve a lot of my problems, but I'm still having a problem with my IDE hard drives. They are connected to the PRI_EIDE port, and I have been doing a CHKDSK on a 120 GB drive for over 3 hours now. I keep getting File record segment xxxxx is unreadable, and it only does about one per minute, and I think it's still only at around 65% completed.

Any idea what is causing this problem? A bad driver? I had the same issue on a 533 MHz desktop that I had the hard drives in prior to putting them in my new system and it competed the whole process in approximately 5 minutes. Any solutions?

 

[Dethfrumbelo]

More than a few people have been having trouble with slow drive access times with Conroe and the Asus mobo. Some of them suggested that it's a problem with the IDE controller. CorporateThug (sp?) was having the exact same problem.

 

[Addikt]

Ok, well I tried the newer drivers and they still don't work. I don't know what's wrong and I'm thinking that it might just be time to call the manufacturer. Time for an angry phone call to Asus.

Also this might be a dumb quesiton, but it shows my BIOS revision as 1101, is this the newest revision?

 

[Addikt]

*BUMP*

The system is still taking a few minutes to POST, and feels overall sluggish, any other suggestions before I call Asus?

 

[Operandi]

POST should only take a second or two; so I'll assume you are referring to boot time.

I would try a fresh install of windows followed by an immediate installation of the latest or best known drivers.

 

[smthmlk]

are the jumpers on the ide hd's set correctly, and are they connected in the right order on the ide cable? (this in regard to slow posting)

 

[Addikt]

Yes they are, that's the first thing that I checked.