RE: solved -- Issue with two Intel NICs

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Andrea Cogliati wrote:

> Thank you for your support. I upgraded the mobo to the last BIOS
> available from
> Intel and now it works fine. Probably it was some kind of system
> resource
> Conflicts (IRQ or bus master line).

My guess is that it was a bug in the bus master artibration or burst
mode that was solved by changing the bus bridge parameters.

It may have been a firmware bug in the on-board NIC.  That chip is
rumored to have the ability to accept small firmware patches uploaded
just after a hard reset.

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