Acer 8204 NIC LAN Card Problem - Solution
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From: simon on 17 Feb 2006 17:06 I thought I'd post this since I've spent the better part of my day resolving it. Very frustrating to pull a new laptop out of the box and not have it working. Hardware: Acer 8204WLMi, Intel 945PM Chipset, Intel PRO/1000 PM Ethernet Problem: Ethernet connection drops randomly and intermitently. The driver constantly restarts itself (Event ID: 42 from source e1express). This means that the network connection stalls, sometimes causing the entire system to stall. Root Cause: Bad eeprom on the NIC from Intel Solution: 1. Download intel_eeprom.zip from ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/travelmate_8200/driver/ 2. Extract, start Command Prompt 3. Run eeupdatew32 /BUS=3 /DEV=00 /DATA TEKOA_A3.txt 4. Reboot 5. Enjoy and be happy
From: PAUL on 18 Feb 2006 23:44
THANK YOU SIMON!!! YOU MADE MY WEEKEND. YOU NEED TO EXTRACT THESE FILES INTO THE C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS FOLDER. I WILL SPREAD THIS NEWS AND GIVE YOU THE CREDIT. THANKS PAUL simon wrote: > I thought I'd post this since I've spent the better part of my day resolving > it. Very frustrating to pull a new laptop out of the box and not have it > working. > > Hardware: Acer 8204WLMi, Intel 945PM Chipset, Intel PRO/1000 PM Ethernet > > Problem: Ethernet connection drops randomly and intermitently. The driver > constantly restarts itself (Event ID: 42 from source e1express). This means > that the network connection stalls, sometimes causing the entire system to > stall. > > Root Cause: Bad eeprom on the NIC from Intel > > Solution: > > 1. Download intel_eeprom.zip from > ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/travelmate_8200/driver/ > 2. Extract, start Command Prompt > 3. Run eeupdatew32 /BUS=3 /DEV=00 /DATA TEKOA_A3.txt > 4. Reboot > 5. Enjoy and be happy |