NIC locking PC up

[qwerty12345]

I have LAN at home with 2 PCs linked by a crossover cable. When I transfer files from my PII to my Athlon system it locks up after about 5 seconds and I have to press reset. It does this at full and half duplex with 100Mbps transfer speed. If I set it to 10Mbps full duplex it takes a few minutes to lock when copying files. On 10Mbps half duplex it doesn't lock up but is painfully slow (about 250KBps).

System specs:
Asus A7V133 with Athlon 1.2GHz (not oc'ed) at 133FSB
256MB Kingmax RAM
3D Prophet 2 Ultra
IBM 40GB 7200RPM primary master on ATA100
Pioneer 16x DVD and ZipCD 4x4x24, primary and secondary master on IDE controller.

PCI cards:
1: 8MB SiS 6326
2: SB Live Value (I've heard this card has a problem with my chipset (KT133A), is this true?)
3: Hauppauge WinTV PCI
4: Realtek RTL8139(A)-based PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter (I've tried the drivers that came with the card and the ones windows had, windows said its drivers were a better match.)

I've also tried the secondary vid card in slot 5, no diff.

When copying in the opposite direction there is no problem at any speed.

I had a 15m cable between them, currently it has a 8m cable between them, doesn't change anything though. Does cable length make a difference?

[awforrest]

Try this:

Download the latest drivers from the manufacturer and install them - in spite of what Windows says.

Check to see if the Ethernet card is sharing an IRQ. If it is try changing it.

Cable length is not an issue, and although you have the Soundblaster Live in your system, as long as this is the only problem that should not be an issue either. - Check the IRQ!

Hope that helps.

[Enigma]

Hello;
I think I might have a solution to your problem.
I had a Sound Blaster Live ! PCI in the (THIRD) PCI slot of the same ASUS A7V133 mobo you have. For some reason the (THIRD) PCI slot on that mobo causes problems. As soon as I moved the card from the third slot the problems with the card went away.
Just move the NIC card to another PCI slot and everything (Hopefully) will be O.K.
It worked for me, I hope it works for you.
Good Luck.
Enigma

[DanU]

I've also had similar NIC problems that were solved by moving the NIC to a different PCI slot.

[qwerty12345]

I tried moving the card to a different slot, it made no difference at all. I couldn't change the IRQ, Windows won't let me, it's all grayed out. I have 7 things on IRQ 9 (including the NIC). How can I get windows to let me change the resources. FYI it's Win2kPro.

[buttons3]

win2kpro, probably won't let you change the setting

[qwerty12345]

Are you sure, it has warnings about changing resources. If it has those warnings i'd assume that it should be possible to change them.