Recently I have been having a problem with my computer and ethernet card. i have a broadcom 440x installed in my laptop, and anytime that it's turned on the computer runs super slow. If I go into the bios and disable the card, or go into device manager and unistall the device, the computer runs fine again. It literally happened overnight. The thing was running great one day, then the next morning it was going real slow. I have scanned for a virus, I got the latest driver, and nothing. It's on XP Pro. Any help would be great.
Ethernet Card Slows Down Computer
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The_Other_One
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I'm not exactly sure, but I'd suspect some form of conflict... I know many devices now will share resources. Though people tell me this doesn't effect performace, I'm still unsure if this is true...
How does this device connect to your laptop? PC-Card?
How does this device connect to your laptop? PC-Card?
It's a built-in card. It's called "Broadcom 440x Integrated Co
troller". I got the latest driver, I repaired the device, and according to device manager it was working properly. The thing that I don't get is that it affects the computer whether I'm trying to transfer data or not. From the moment I push the power button windows is slow to load, and then once loaded continues to run slow. It's the card that came with the computer, and it has worked fine for almost two years until it suddenly went ka-pootz. I have tried the windows driver and the factory driver, neither of which help. The windows website is no help either. It happened a while after I installed a new copy of SP2 for the first time, and that's my chief suspect at the moment. However, last night I installed a fresh copy of SP1 and it didn't change a thing.
troller". I got the latest driver, I repaired the device, and according to device manager it was working properly. The thing that I don't get is that it affects the computer whether I'm trying to transfer data or not. From the moment I push the power button windows is slow to load, and then once loaded continues to run slow. It's the card that came with the computer, and it has worked fine for almost two years until it suddenly went ka-pootz. I have tried the windows driver and the factory driver, neither of which help. The windows website is no help either. It happened a while after I installed a new copy of SP2 for the first time, and that's my chief suspect at the moment. However, last night I installed a fresh copy of SP1 and it didn't change a thing.
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The_Other_One
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That's odd... I'd heard of SP2 causing some problems with such devices, but I would think downgrading would fix this... Perhaps it is dying? I've had some devices like soundcards die in computer and cause similar problems until disabled...
The_Other_One
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Onboard stuff isn't... But I'm not sure what else would be the problem unless you have some odd resource conflicts.
It shouldn't be hard to get another card, if it is dying. Just disable it and install the new one.
*rant* This is why I hate all the onboard stuff things have anymore! This is a laptop, right? Well desktops have the same problems, and when something dies or you upgrade, you're still stuck with the old one
It shouldn't be hard to get another card, if it is dying. Just disable it and install the new one.
*rant* This is why I hate all the onboard stuff things have anymore! This is a laptop, right? Well desktops have the same problems, and when something dies or you upgrade, you're still stuck with the old one
hmm this is an interesting development. Without changing any settings on my computer, the connection started working again as quickly as it stopped. the computer still runs slow when trying to transfer data, and transfer rates blow, but it seems to be getting a little better every time i restart the machine. This is the screwiest thing i have ever seen.