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- DOCUMENT:Q105582 28-OCT-1993 [W_NT]
- TITLE :Intel EtherExpress 16 LAN Adapter Disconnects from Network
- PRODUCT :Windows NT
- PROD/VER:3.10
- OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
- KEYWORDS:
-
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- The information in this article applies to:
-
- - Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
- - Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1
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-
- SYMPTOMS
- ========
-
- Your system may randomly stop responding (hang) or disconnect from
- network connections while using an Intel EtherExpress 16 network
- adapter. Applications that rely on network connections may appear to
- hang or generate a message indicating that the network connection can
- no longer be found. If you attempt to make a network connection from
- within the MS-DOS environment of Windows NT, you may receive the
- following error message:
-
- System error 53 has occurred.
- The network path was not found.
-
- CAUSE
- =====
-
- The random network hangs or disconnects when using the Intel
- EtherExpress 16 network card may occur at relatively infrequent and
- unpredictable times. For this reason, Microsoft has not yet been able
- to trace the cause of this problem. However, the existence of the
- problem has been verified by Microsoft.
-
- The Intel products included here are manufactured by vendors
- independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise,
- regarding these products' performance or reliability.
-
- Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT and Windows
- NT Advanced Server version 3.1. We are researching this problem and
- will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it
- becomes available.
-
- Additional reference words: 3.10 Ethernet Xpress frozen stop
- Ether Express
- KBCategory:
- KBSubCategory: netsrv
-
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