nForce4 NIC Issues

[Malcolm]

I recently got a GA-K8NXP-SLI board from Gigabyte and now I'm having a weird problem with the onboard nForce NIC. When I connect the NIC to any source it starts blinking, both the green and orange light flash on and off continually. This is not normal data transfer, I know what that is wink.gif

It hasn't always been this way, I had it working normal for almost 2 weeks, then while playing Counter-Strike:Source it started doing this.

The onboard Marvell NIC works fine, but I'm a Linux user and the modules aren't as good as the nForce's.

My Kernel messages keep on saying eth0 link up, eth0 link down on each flash.

In Windows XP I get the same thing; it does the DHCP lookup then the dual monitor indicator gets the red X over it, then does the lookup again, over and over.

I've searched the net for answers but I've found nothing, anyone got any ideas?

[Phate]

i *think* it has to do with a power supply issue. This happened to me a long while ago when I built my first PC... Check the manual for errors... and look what it means when the green and orange lights flash on and off...

[Malcolm]

Replaced the PSU with an antec 480w one already, that was my first thought aswell :S

[Phate]

try powering them with different PSU's.... thats what i had to do