Dav Posted February 10, 2007 Report Posted February 10, 2007 Whenever i am making large downloads this happens, less frequently when i just leave subchat or conti on. The system will crash in some way and i come back to see a black screen displaying this:- NSC DP83815/DP83816 MacPyther Fast Ethernet UNDI v1.00 some other stuff here PXE-E61 media test faliure, test cablePXE-M0F Existing Macpyther PCE ROM I have tried disabling the ethernet adapter as im using wireless, disables wake on lan and such as well. Looked for a driver update and cant find anything new so i have no idea what to do to fix this. Anyone that can help id be greatful.
Wild Luck Posted February 10, 2007 Report Posted February 10, 2007 did you installed some new drives or software lately before the problem?
Dav Posted February 11, 2007 Author Report Posted February 11, 2007 no it seems to do it on the basic system setup.
rootbear75 Posted February 11, 2007 Report Posted February 11, 2007 The media-test failure means that the bios had errors concerning the HD check Hard Drive cables (IDE cables) and reseat them if necessary...if that doesnt work, try setting the HD Pre-Delay (found in your BIOS settings) to a higher numberand if your computer is dusty, try using some canned air on it or a PC Vaccuum, or even clean out the pin holes on the cables since it doesnt happen EVERY time you boot, i doubt your IDE cables are bad... did you add new hardware (such as a cd rom or hard drive)? if yes:what configuration do you have them on?give me these: the board has IDE0 and IDE1 printed on the board next to the connections. MotherBoard*************IDE1....IDE0|||........||||||........|||=________(Device1, might have "Slave" printed on the cable) (stock cofig: open or 2nd HD)|||........||||||........|||=________(Device0, might have "Master" printed on the cable) (stock cofig: main hard drive)||||||=====________(Device1, usually "slave") (stock config: varies, usually a second CD/DVD drive)||||||=====________(Device0, "master") (stock config: CD/DVD-ROM or burner) EDIT: if we cant figure it out, i will ask my A+ teacher what might be wrong
Dav Posted February 11, 2007 Author Report Posted February 11, 2007 It is a laptop so the HDD connection and settings really cant go wrong. I have had this problem for a while and when i fully dismantled it to clean everything and check the connections it wasnt made any better. I did suspect the HDD but ive run every test i can and it is currently ok. Everything in that screen points at my on board Ethernet card causing a problem. This only happens when i am running sustained high bandwidth over a few hours or more. I suppose it may have something to do with the high level of hard disk read/write but why would it flag the network card if this is the case?
Dav Posted February 11, 2007 Author Report Posted February 11, 2007 Just a thought but it may be my power saving options. My HDD turns off after 10 mins of idle time so i will see what turning this off does. If it crashes again ill post the whole error message.
rootbear75 Posted February 12, 2007 Report Posted February 12, 2007 ill ask around tomorrowstill might be able to help.
»SD>Big Posted February 12, 2007 Report Posted February 12, 2007 sounds to me like you may have a faulty HDD. i recommend running a diagnostics utility. If you can find out who makes your hard drive (if you can't find it easily on the net and you aren't willing to open your laptop, post your laptop brand and model number here and i'll see if i can help out), go to the manufacturer's site and see if they have diag tools. if not you can always use SeaTools from seagate, it works on other hard drives as well http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/ hope it helps
rootbear75 Posted February 12, 2007 Report Posted February 12, 2007 NSC DP83815/DP83816 MacPyther Fast Ethernet UNDI v1.00try googling that to get updated drivers...there is a version 1.03 Link:Ultradesic: Strategy Powered by FusionNSC DP83815/DP83816 Fast Ethernet UNDI, v1.03 ... cpu0: Geode Integrated Processor by National Semi ("Geode by NSC" 586-class) 267 MHz ... this all came from my teacher so hopefully this should help she also says when you download large files, you will want to use wired instead...
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