Hi,
we have bought 3 of these expensive cards and for the second time now the following has happened:
these cards came as
PCI\VEN_8086\DEV_1528\&SUBSYS_00028086
and the installation of the the newest Win7 64bit drivers 20.3 went just fine and the network card worked
perfectly. The problem now is, once the PC shut down/cold booted the network disappeared and instead
an unknown ethernet controller is found by the device manager listed as follows:
PCI\VEN_8086\DEV_1512\&SUBSYS_00008086
It is then of course not possible anymore to install any driver for it, not even manually
inserting DEV_1512 into the .inf file works (device cannot be started code 10). Also
the Ctrl-S dialog to get into the card doesn't come up anymore after the Bios screen.
It looks as if the card is brain dead or several bits flipped or whatever.
This is now the second time under Win7 64bit with an HP 8100 Workstation. Under
Win81 64bit on a 2 Dell workstations the cards work very well even after several
complete shutdowns.
What can we do? Why and how does this happen? I have already RMA'd one card
and got a replacement but now the same is happening again and we can not believe
what we see. Hardware ID's are changing, how's that possible, what's going on??
What should we do with this, does anyone have any idea how this can be fixed???
Any help please? Thank you!
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