Re: NT server looses connection to network

I had EXACTLY the same problem with a Gateway P-200 with a 3com PCI 100/10 card, NT server 3.51, SP4. The beast would just go AWOL, and over IP, netBeui, or appletalk, it just wasn't accessible. IF you logged in on the console, everything looked OK, and only a reboot would fix it.

This was after my standard procedure of setting up the card BEFORE installing NT. Boot up from floppy in dos 6.x, set card IRQ, I/O, network prefs & topology type from the 3com utility. Then go in to BIOS and disable any power management. Then install NT 3x or 4.

After a few days of sweating bullets, I found that there was a system device driver for the 3com bus master card that was set to manual startup. When checked on from Control, Device, it was not started. Set the startup for it to Automatic, rebooted, all problems vanished.

Hope that helps
Lex Kontrovitz

Net Admin/Webmaster
World Learning
www.worldlearning.org

n 13 Nov 1996 19:56:42 GMT, graham.estey_at_sofkin.ca (Graham Estey) wrote:

>The problem I have is that one of my NT file servers every once and a while
>will loose it’s knowledge of the network. When you do a net view the only
>system it see is itself. The system is configured as follows:
>
> Pentium Pro 200
> 64 Mbytes memory
> Adaptec 2940 scsi controller
> Lots of disk space
> NT v3.51 SP5
> 3com 3c590 (NT supplied drivers)
> Oracle version 7.3
>
>
>The system is setup to run as an Oracle server and that is it. The problem
>usually occurs when the system is idle, I have not encounter a problem where
>someone is accessing the data base and the system hang. However, if the person
>is connected but idle in does occur (The system is idle at least 90% of the
>time).
>
>
> The rest of the network is a mix of NT3.51 and WFWGs. The PDC is a NT
>V3.51 sp5, BDC and DHCP server is NT 3.51 sp5, second BDC and wins server is
>NT V4 sp1. Note this problem was occurring before the NT4 server was
>installed.
>
> If anyone has any suggestion as to why this is happening or any
>suggestions as to a road to fallow to fix this problem would be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks
> Graham
>
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Received on Sat Nov 16 1996 - 00:00:00 CST