Quote Originally Posted by Prompt View Post
Hi!

This is not an overclocking issue, but I have read about ethernet problems with this mobo here so that's why i am posting here. Maybe you can help..
I have a new asus p5kc and it has a weird ethernet problem. If I try xdcc-ing on irc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDCC), the whole connection dies. I mean not only the internet connection (which is through a router), even the LAN is unreachable until I reboot. After that everything is ok again.
I have tried using a PCI card, and it has no troubles with xdcc (and of course i never had problems with it before the new system). I had an older driver for the integrated one, so i've updated it to the latest to see if that solves the problem but it didn't. I use torrent and ftp and a lot of other protocols but none of them seems to kill the connection like xdcc does. Xdcc uses ports from 1024-5000 so i have tried modifing them to see if the problem has anything to do anything with ports, but the result were the same (after like 15 seconds disconnected). A friend of mine has p5kc as well and has no problems with xdcc-ing so not all of the p5kc-s has this problem.

I can return it, but what if I get the new one and it has the same problem? So I wanna try everything to solve it before i go for a new one.

Any idea?
Sorry for the late reply. In my experience you lose ethernet when you oc pcie bus. Put it at 100 or 101.

zork go for a premium or deluxe, something with voltage damper available.