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What the hell's wrong with my computer!?

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Addikt

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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.
 
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?
 
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.

 
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?
 
*BUMP*

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