Hello guys
I'm having a problem that got worse lately.
I use an old rig on my living room, just to watch netflix and youtube, the specs are:
AMD phenom II x4 955
mobo A790GXM-AD3
no GPU (broke years ago, I use onboard graphics)
PSU corsair 500W
Windows 7 (old rig as I said ^^)
My problem is, when we have a hot climate, everything works fine, but when it's cold the ethernet suddenly stops working. When I say that I mean:
I start up the PC then after 1 or 2 minutes the LAN goes down as if I remove the ethernet cable, every light indicator keep working as if was fine. the LAN indicator on windows got a red X and if I try to troubleshoot it says that I have to plug an ethernet cable ¬¬
This problem is happening for years and when I restart the PC it happens again and again until eventually get solved (probably because the PC is getting hotter, after all, it happens ONLY when it's cold)
BUT lately I cleaned up this PC and added some sparing coolers (did it on summer) but now that's winter (in south america) I got to restart my PC 10 times and remove one cooler in order to keep my LAN working for more than 5 minutes. (later records on the issue was 3 restarts until it got warm and keep working)
Said that, my question is:
The LAN controller need some interation with the processor that if I remove it completely and reinstall it may solve the issue (like happens when one DIMM on RAM doesn't work) or it's exclusively an chipset issue?
Getting an offboard LAN adapter may help?
Any ideas what may be causing it?
obs: I reinstalled windows several times in the past and it keeps happening.