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Asante MC3NB fails diagnostic test (Excessive Collisions)

petteri

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I guess the card is not ok, I couldn't get it to work in IIfx. I tried in two different slots without difference. These slots work fine with the display adapter so I assume it isn't something with the IIfx. Memory Buffer Test works but NIC Test fails always with Excessive Collisions. Is this some common issue and is there any way to fix the card?


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petteri

Well-known member
Rather strange (and somewhat embarrassing) but it seems to work now. I moved the jumper to closed position (10BASE5 use I think) and the test passed. So I removed the jumper and connected this to an old MBP 2011 where I could force the link to 10M and with that the test passed. Without cable or with bad link the test fails.

I think the test description is pretty misleading: "Controller Test - Verifies the register integrity of the network interface controller chip."
 
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