sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
Is it via P4M266. what is the problem? I have two boards with power on problems. The battery (the regular suspect) was not the problem. will be sending both back.
We generally sell 845 chipset boards for P4. Mercury was very nice and stable but their onboard lan started giving problems. In one new machice it was not detected at all even in their own bios. Mercury guys directed the engineer to download a patch for the same in windows. In one more new board, the LAN would not connect even after all drivers and everything was ok (win), even the lights were ok. The board had to be replaced. In another new board there was some other problem too can't recollect what but the board had to be replaced.
as they reported minimum problems even in comparison with Intel original boards. But lately their on board LAN keeps giving trouble
Never had a problem with the lan check your RJ45 male.
Everything was fine except that the board had to be replaced (the older pc worked fine on the same cable) and then the same loaded HDD was used and lan was working properly in the replacement board. These are alarm bells indicating that its time to avoid a certain batch of otherwise good hardware.
Regards,
Rony.
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