Thread: Rtl8139 Nic Bad! Rtl8029 Nic Good!
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Old 20-11-2007, 17:55   #6
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Re: Rtl8139 Nic Bad! Rtl8029 Nic Good!
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Originally Posted by Web-Junkie View Post
Yes, it has to be a NIC card and motherboard incompatibility but what the cause is I'll probably never know! Could be as Lord Nikon says and it's a voltage issue? Since installing this 10mbit NIC though it's worked flawlessly for the 6 hours the PC's been on and not one 'unplugged' condition has happened!

A PC users life would be really boring if everything worked first time now, wouldn't it?
Oh absolutely.

Could be a voltage fluctuation, but could be that one of the chips on the NIC doesn't like one of the chips on the motherboard. Both possible.
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