Re: Update on e1000 troubles (over-heating!)

[Andre Hedrick]

I have a pair of Compaq e1000's which have never overheated, and I use
them for heavy duty iSCSI testing and designing of drivers.  These are
massive 66/64 cards but still nothing like what you are reporting.

I will look some more at the issue soon.

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
iSCSI Software Solutions Provider
http://www.PyXTechnologies.com/

On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Ben Greear wrote:

> I believe I have figured out why the e1000 crashed my machine
> after .5 - 1 hours:  The NIC was over-heating.  I measured one of
> the NICs after the machine crashed with an external (cheap) temp
> probe.  It registered right at 50 degrees C, and this was about 15-30
> seconds after it crashed.
> 
> The dual e1000 NIC I have seems to run much cooler, and has been
> running at 430Mbps bi-directional on both ports for about 6 hours now
> with no obvious problems.
> 
> So, I'm going to try to purchase some heat sinks and glue them onto
> the e1000 server nics, to see if that fixes the problem.
> 
> Hope this proves useful to anyone experiencing similar strange
> crashes!
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 
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