Network Card (onboard) dying?

[Nija]

I have a relatively new (~6 months) HP Pavilion a1410n, Windows Media Center (Fully Updated), AMD 64 3800+ @ 2.4GHz, ~1 GB of RAM.

I can browse both the internal network and Internet, however when I want to download/upload it takes forever. Example: Last night I had 400 MB to copy from my local drive up to our Buffalo TeraStation. It took almost 4 hours to complete. Other computers don't seem to have this problem.

I have a Gigabit switch, and the terastation is capable of those speeds, should I just go out and purchase a gigabit-capable card and install it, or are there some troubleshooting steps I should take first?

Thanks for any help.

[ray]

Check the Network card properties and make sure you're transferring at 10/100 duplex if you have a 100Mbps network card. If you have a 1000Mbps then make sure it's transferring at the highest speed.

You could also try removing the device from your hardware manager in "My Computer" properties and rebooting the machine. When it restarts, Windows will identify the nic card again and install the appropriate drivers and default settings.

[Nija]

Check the Network card properties and make sure you're transferring at 10/100 duplex if you have a 100Mbps network card. If you have a 1000Mbps then make sure it's transferring at the highest speed.

You could also try removing the device from your hardware manager in "My Computer" properties and rebooting the machine. When it restarts, Windows will identify the nic card again and install the appropriate drivers and default settings.
Hrm.

When I open Device Manager, Open Network Adapters (Although not limited to this one), Right click , Properties and get an error reading, "Windows could not load the installer for Net. Contact your hardware vendor for assistance." I click OK, and it will let me select all tabs EXCEPT for Driver.

By all accounts it looks to be working correctly (no yellow or red marks, anywhere). I don't have the recovery CD's either.

[Kevster]

Hrm.

When I open Device Manager, Open Network Adapters (Although not limited to this one), Right click , Properties and get an error reading, "Windows could not load the installer for Net. Contact your hardware vendor for assistance." I click OK, and it will let me select all tabs EXCEPT for Driver.

By all accounts it looks to be working correctly (no yellow or red marks, anywhere). I don't have the recovery CD's either.

When you right-click on your 'network places' icon and select 'properties' from the pull-down menu, what do you see? Do you see your network connections there? If you see your onboard ethernet interface there, try selecting it, right-clicking on it and selecting 'properties' to see what it's doing. You should be able to see what driver it is using there as well.

You might want to pull down the current drivers from HP, in the event you have to re-install. You might even be able to pull down the .iso for the recovery disk too.

[DarkFury]

Personally, I'd go for the Gigabit network card and be done with it...


Ummmm... Gigabit speed! :lick:

[Devhux]

Try a different network cable as well -- perhaps the one you're using isn't working properly.

[Hoser]

It also helps if the Gigabit switch and network cards can handle jumbo frames.

[Nija]

I uninstalled and reinstalled the onboard driver using nvidia's driver. Now to test it with something more than 100 mb (54 PDFs :P)

[gwilks98]

If you're going to play with duplex settings, don't forget to check the target machine's settings.