We have had nothing but problems with Madge PCI Bussmaster 2 NIC's in WIN
NT servers. The final solution was IBM PCI LanStreamer NIC's. The same
problems occurred in user pc's running WIN95. It seems the Bussmaster (BM2)
was the problem. We also had problems in Laptop users with WIN95 using
Madge PC Card MK2 NIC's. This is a major problem since Madge is Corporate
standard, and Madge had an exceptional record before the MK2 and BM2 series
of cards.



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May not be related to your problem, but thought I'd mention our
experiance.

We have two NT servers running MS SQL, that exibited simular symptoms to
what you have been describing. Both these servers were using Madge PCI
Bussmaster 2 network cards.
On a hunch, the cards were replaced with straight PCI Bustmaster Cards,
and the problem went away.