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I decided that the on-board networking port on my motherboard is crap. It works fine 99% of the time, but whenever I download large files, there is always one or two bits off ? enough to corrupt the whole thing. It is good enough to play online games, good enough to surf the web, but not good enough to download large files. Oddly, when transferring at much higher speeds from the computer next to me, I have had no problems.

Is this something a BIOS upgrade might fix, and if so, is there a way I can test to see that it is indeed fixed (other than randomly downloading large files)?

Normally, I would not care, but I only have a few PCI slots, and I had to sacrifice my game controller (which I do not use, granted) for a networking card, and I will not be able to install any more without replacing something. I do not know what PCI-device I would want and do not have, but there might be something in the future.

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You could try updated drivers, etc. first, but if that doesn't work I'd take it back for a new MB. It should work as advertised.

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But how would I test it and prove anything is wrong?

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I think it is a software issue. I offloaded checksum computing to the hardware, and it seems fine now. I am going to write a test program to be sure, though.

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I feel pretty strongly that a BIOS update and driver update would fix this. You've suggested the best way I know to check, use a checksum.

The other option, in some ways better and in some ways worse, is that you have finicky RAM. Let it run memtest86+ overnight if you haven't already, and see what happens. This might also explain some of the software difficulties you were talking about in a different thread... I know when I went through my bad RAM phase, I couldn't update anything...