Boo Hoo

[peterh]

Well the DLink router is still under warranty, so fingers crossed. I actually ordered the MVP on 23 July 2005, so I'll try talking nicelt to Hoppy, but I'll have a look at the motherboard; thanks

[peterh]

I wonder whether these devices are using a 'transorb' (do a google if you don't know what one is) to protect the Ethernet lines. Have a look for a largish device near the ethernet socket connected across the ethernet wires. When they do their job they often end up being destroyed in the process and end up shorted which means even though nothing else is broken the entire device no longer works.

Thanks, I hadn't come across that term before, but I understand what you mean. Transient suppressors that I have come across have usually looked like ceramic disk capacitors and, yes, I have known them to blow (like when my mate bought an Xbox 360 from the US (110v) and plugged it in here using a razor adapter :mad: . I've looked at a few network cards and they all have a 16 pin dil module close to the rj-45, which, I guess, may be a combined pass through and transient suppressor (presumably to protect the active lines), but I can't see anything like that on pictures of the MVPs innards, and I'm waiting for hauppauge to respond before I rip it apart.

I had wondered if it might use a common nic ic like an rtl3189, for example, but again, havng looked at an ethernet card, I can't really see me swapping a 128 pin smd.