965P-DS4 (Rev. 3.3) Issues with direct connection to router

[laatmaarzien]

Hi all, just thought I'd post this as I really haven't seen this kind of weird behavior in all my years working with and assembling Comps.

 

I recently moved to the states after a jaunt in Europe (where I built my Rig - see specs below). The first thing I wanted to do was get the rig back up, so I ordered a new PSU (US Voltage etc), Case, Screen and what have you (all non-essential, save the PSU), and assembled my rig in a jiff. All seemed to work fine, all my S-ATA drives were recognized as usual and I was happy as a camper.

 

However the problems started soon after. When I tried to move files from one HDD to another, my system would lock up, often for a few minutes with the HDD LED on, and the rainbow cursor of death. It would become responsive again after a while, but it kept doing that off and on with each transfer. My first plan of action was to check my Mac build - I reinstalled on another HDD, but to no avail, same lock-ups. I reseated the RAM, tried one stick, tried different slots, tried changing the PSU - all came to nix.

 

Out of the blue an idea came to try without the network cable plugged in, and lo and behold, the problems vanished. The transfers were super speed ahoy, between hard discs and to my external HDD. Everything worked fine. I couldn't believe that was the cause of my problems, so I repeated this test N number of times. Each time the computer would lock up for a few minutes with the network cable on, and experience no problems without the cable in the slot.

 

I narrowed it down to the Wireless router I am using (Westell - Verizon {censored}), since my Network card worked flawlessly with my other switch/routers back in Europe. So here it is, I am currently using a switch between my computer and router, and that has actually solved my problems. Seems there is a chip on the Westell router that doesn't play nice with my Marvell Yukon gigabit NIC.

 

Just wanted to post this in here for it to show up on search in case someone else is facing a similar problem.

 

Cheers.