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<DIV>Turned out to be the motherboard capacitor that had a leakage in them.
Another motherboard from ASUS with those cheap capacitor.</DIV>
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<DIV>Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS, ASE<BR>Director/Sr Systems Consultant<BR>MMT
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<DIV><BR><BR>>>> mark@musicalstoat.co.uk 11:56:49 am 25/03/2004
>>><BR><BR>On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Craig Ringer wrote:<BR>><BR>>
> If so then it may well be the NICs that are giving you
woes.<BR>><BR>> I didn't notice that, but now that you point it out I'd
have to agree.<BR>> I've never had much luck with the FA310TX (whatever
variant I have; they<BR>> seem to reuse the model number while changing
chips) and actually prefer<BR>> RealTek over them.<BR>><BR>Well, cards
using the RealTek 8139 are the ones that I've seen do this<BR>more than any
other. But I suspect that more work has gone into the<BR>drivers for
these, they seem to use the software to work around the fact<BR>that (as I
recall) these chips try to fit square frames into round
holes.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR>-- <BR>Mark
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