Rocky 1,224 Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 New PC built and running okay - apart from internet. The onboard LAN on the Asus P4C800-E Deluxe is dropping the net connection after 5 minutes, a reboot brings it back online. Anybody come across this before? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pave Low 16 Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 (edited) Q. are you using the AV software that came bundled with the board ? Bulldog91 I didn't post this when I first figured it out, but my lag on the NIC card and my network drops were due to the PCCILLIN real time scan and firewall I installed from the Asus mobo installation disk. I was trying to play a MMPOG and the game would be extremely laggy and after a few minutes would disconnect (I assume after the game server got tired of waiting for ack's from my machine). I turned off the PCCillin real time scan and the firewall since I have a firewall appliance and the lag disappeared. One or the other was the cause, but I did not follow up on which one. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RC23 I got mine fixed, and it seems to have been PCCillen that did it, as soon as that was uninstalled it all worked, that and getting rid of a usb controller on the same IRQ. either of those did it. or both -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- molokini Took out the antivirus software (PCcillin) and the Nic has worked without a problem. I knew it wasn't a network issue, but never thought the AV software would cripple the NIC. Thank you for sharing your find and saving us all that time! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RC23 what AV software are u talkin about? ----------------------------------------------------------- molokini It came bundled with the motherboard. Don't install it! clintfan NEWS FLASH! Three days ago AsusTek Computer Co. acknowledged a problem with the PCCILLIN app on numerous mobo's (A7V8X, A7V600, P4G8X/P4G8X Deluxe, P4PE, P4C800 Deluxe, P4P800, P4P8X, P4P800 Deluxe, P4C800-E Deluxe, P4C800, P4P800S-E Deluxe), and they outline a fix approach HERE Edited May 23, 2004 by Pave Low Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rocky 1,224 Posted May 23, 2004 Author Share Posted May 23, 2004 Matches my problem, but I have not installed anything yet, no AV no FW. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rocky 1,224 Posted May 23, 2004 Author Share Posted May 23, 2004 Nice find though, I hadn't seen those posts, thanks for looking. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WhiteKnight77 1 Posted May 23, 2004 Share Posted May 23, 2004 Have you installed the proper drivers for said NIC? Have you gotten any new ones for it (if a 3Com, from the 3Com website)? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CR6 0 Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Hmm ... if I'm not mistaken: P4C800-E Deluxe comes with an Intel Gigabit ethernet controller which has Intel’s CSA feature which promises huge performance increases by moving Ethernet traffic off the PCI bus and onto a special direct port in the memory controller. ASUS released the "E" version because the original P4C800 Deluxe cheaped out with a 3Com controller that runs off the slower PCI bus. I would check out the ASUS CD that came with your mobo and install the Intel Gigabit ethernet chip drivers from there. Windows XP does not have the Intel Gigabit ethernet drivers in the default CD installation, since the i865/875 chipset family came out after WinXP did. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rocky 1,224 Posted May 24, 2004 Author Share Posted May 24, 2004 I found the problem, here's what I just emailed CR6 a moment ago - basically, my new PC got infected by two virii. Pretty bad ones too. I discovered the problem. In the time it took me to download and install AV and Zonealarm onto my new PC - it got infected by two virii!! Sasser and Agobot-hx were present. Read what Agobot does - it's unreal and I had a real job removing it http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobothx.html Between them they were shutting the internet down, preventing me from running anti virus software, and also stopping me from running regedit! Apparantly one of them can also steal win xp product keys! So I have managed to remove them both and am not detecting any virus now, but I am really ****** off that my brand new PC with fresh and official Win XP Pro installed has been compromised and even though I have cleaned the registry and windows folders of the nasty files, I still have this "unclean" feeling ( Right now I want to format the HD and install windows again from scratch - this time not connecting to the net until I have installed security from a CD rather than the web. What do you think? I am sooo mad Quote Link to post Share on other sites
XavierOnasis 0 Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Wow. Agobot's got some stones on it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rocky 1,224 Posted May 24, 2004 Author Share Posted May 24, 2004 Yeh tell me about it. I think it just wanders in through an unprotected port too - very dangerous. I found removal guides, but couldn't figure out how come everytime I fired up regedit - it shut down a few seconds later, and evertime I put an anti virus app on, it switched off after a few seconds. Amazing stuff, but it really made me mad. I've ran my current PC for years and never picked up a single thing, because I always have AV and firewall on, and always do the windows updates. However, 5 minutes on my new PC and BANG, infected all over the place. So mad right now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WhiteKnight77 1 Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Ouch my friend. Have a margartita and kick back before attacking those damned bugs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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