Help
I have acquired some gigabit lan equipment and am trying to connect it together but am encountering a problem with one of my PCs. A specific PC on my network will not POST at all as long as I have a PCI or PCI-e Gigabit NIC installed in it. The processor fan will turn 1/4 of the way but then stop – no power. The computer runs fine when it is not installed in any of the slots.
The onboard Intel® PRO/100 VE NIC on this computer works but it is (of course) not fast enough. My other PC has an onboard gigabit NIC and I have a D-Link (DNS-323) gigabit NAS all connected through a D-Link DGS-1005D gigabit switch. They are all connected through Cat5e and Cat6 cables that I have spliced.
I have two D-Link Gigabit PCI (DGE-530T) NICs. They are known working cards as they have functioned fine in another PC. With either of those cards installed in this PC, the PC will not POST at all. I thought that perhaps obtaining a D-Link Gigabit (DGE-560T) PCI-e NIC would solve this problem but the results are the same. In any event, the faster BUS speed on a PCI-e card would be much better than a PCI card anyhow.
To troubleshoot this problem, I have:
- disabled the onboard NIC in the BIOS
- reset the BIOS to default values in the BIOS options
- reset the motherboard CMOS jumper
- updated the BIOS from ver 4092 to ver 4119
- tried connecting the (DGE-530T) Gigabit NIC to each of the PCI slots
- removed the AuzenTech PCI soundcard, then tried that slot
- installed a D-Link Gigabit PCI-e(1x) (DGE-560T) NIC
I have tried Googling a solution but to no avail. I can't be alone in being the only person experiencing this problem. Aside from replacing the motherboard (one with an onboard gigabit NIC), I am at a loss as to what I can do. I was hoping that someone can offer some additional suggestions/recommendations.
The specs on my PC are as follows:
O.S: Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit) Service Pack 1
Motherboard: Intel D945GTP
BIOS ver: NT94510J.86A.4119.2009.0113.1807 01/13/2009
Processor: Pentium D 3.4 GHz dual core
Ram: OCZ 2GB PC2-5400 Dual Channel DDR2 (2 x 1GB)
Video: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTO
Sound: AuzenTech HDA X-Plosion 7.1 DTS
(onboard) NIC: Intel® PRO/100 VE Network Connection
HDD1: WDC 10,000 RPM WD1500ADFD 150GB SATA II
HDD2: Seagate ST3320620AS 320GB SATA II
Optical: BENQ DVD DD DW1650
Case: ANTEC Sonata II
Power Supply: ANTEC TruePower 2.0 TPII480 480w
NIC: D-Link Gigabit PCI NIC (DGE-530T)
NIC: D-Link Gigabit PCI-e(1x) NIC (DGE-560T)
Switch: D-Link DGS-1005D
NAS: D-Link DNS-323 (2 x Samsung 1TB SATA II 7200RPM 32mb)
This post has been edited by Jabberfassy: 19 January 2009 - 11:34 PM
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