[ale] Can this kill a network adapter?

[Nathan J. Underwood]

I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I didn't try this first, but I 
just flashed the bios and that seemed to do the trick.  The NF7 is 
already out the door (with the new nic), so I can't test it, but the NF8 
seems happy.  I'm going to do another image of it to see if that seems 
to cause it grief.


Calvin Harrigan wrote:

>Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
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>>I use partimage quite a bit to image computers.  I've never had a 
>>problem with it (well, haven't had *this* problem with it) in the past, 
>>but I've just ran into a problem a second time that just seems weird.  I 
>>have a workstation (fresh install of Windows XP Pro), and I'm creating 
>>an image on it on a server (Win2k3 SBS).  Generally, after installing 
>><insert OS / ver here>, I boot the workstation to a Knoppix disk 
>>(currently using Knoppix v3.9).  Once Knoppix boots, I open a shell, get 
>>root, mount a share on my Win2k3 server, fire up partimage, and create 
>>an image on that samba share.  As mentioned above, that generally 
>>doesn't cause any problems.
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>>Now, fast forward to a couple of days ago.  Finished a workstation, 
>>verified that all seemed well, rebooted it and started the imaging 
>>process.  The partition that it was imaging was only 8GB, so I didn't 
>>expect it to take too long at all.  I went to grab a cup of coffee and 
>>see what the latest was at the water cooler, and got back, and it wasn't 
>>done (normally, it would have been).  Further investigation showed that 
>>it was hung.  So I killed it, and planned to start it over again.  No 
>>dice.  The short story is, it was no longer connected to the network.  
>>ifconfig showed only lo (i.e. no info for eth0).  I then tried to renew 
>>the IP, no love.  After poking around a bit, I decided to reboot the 
>>box.  Still, no IP, no trace of eth0.  I stuck another network card in 
>>the machine, rebooted, imaged, no problems.  Removed the extra nic, 
>>booted Windows, no nic.  Tried to remove it from device manager (and let 
>>plug and pray pick it back up), no dice.  The network card (that 
>>apparently failed) was the built-in card on an Abit NF7 mobo.
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>>Now, fast forward to a couple of minutes ago.  Same scenario.  Installed 
>>Windows, installed SP2, installed updates, booted Knoppix, mounted [smb] 
>>share, started imaging process, went for caffeine, returned to a dead 
>>nic.  This was on an Abit NF8 mobo.  I've not been able to 'resurrect' 
>>the dead nic on the mobo. 
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>>Anyone had any similar issues with Abit motherboards?
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>I'm not sure if it's related, but the nics on those boards (nforce 
>chipsets) are not very reliable.  I've had the nics go out on a couple  
>boards.  The link lights all seem to work normally, the drivers load, 
>but no data.  I ended up just installing a pci nic, all was well again. 
>One board was MSI one was Asus.  If you do find out how to get them 
>working again, please let me/the list know.
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