Asus P5KC Onboard Gigabit NIC (P5K-C)

[Yatti420]

Hello everybody,

I just wanted to give a heads up regarding the Asus P5KC and Freenas.. The onboard NIC seems to be unstable and crashing consistently under Freenas/Windows.. I am not sure if this is my motherboard specifically or all P5KC in existence.. It seems that when I put SMB under heavy load it chokes and fatal traps the system using onboard gigabit NIC.. The D-link pci (DFE Series) gigabit card I put in seems to work find and outperform my onboard despite its age.. I've yet to have another fatal trap I just hope I didn't speak to soon.. I am not exactly sure what to do to get the p5kc operating smoothly as I noticed the same drops when this comp was running Windows 7 previously..

I spent a day tweaking the BIOS to no avail.. I put in my dlink card and put SMB under load usually 1 video / large transfer. I should note I am only on 100mb router as I donated my good router to my parents network..

Thanks,

 

[cyberjock]

Considering that the ASUS website lists the LAN card as "PCIe Gigabit LAN controller" I'm not the least bit surprised. That's so freakin' awesome! I laughed so hard when I saw that.

Seriously.. that's what ASUS' website says! http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5KC/#specifications

 

[Yatti420]

Considering that the ASUS website lists the LAN card as "PCIe Gigabit LAN controller" I'm not the least bit surprised. That's so freakin' awesome! I laughed so hard when I saw that.

Seriously.. that's what ASUS' website says! http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5KC/#specifications

Yes it's true... I even tried setting the pcie frequency at 100mhz.. I could have a wonky port.. It only seemed to be SMB doing it though at infrequent points in time... Rsync worked great and fast for drive to drive..

Edit: Also this is what was causing Zfs checksum issues I think and am holding my breath..