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For what it’s worth, I purchased an Intel seperate Ethernet pcie card. Only managed to perform a quick test but so far it seems rock solid. No more playback errors with the c24. I can only summarise that the c24 and or pro tools did not play well with the msi motherboards Ethernet port which is a Realtek gigabit chip. The intel gigabit chip seems to have done the trick.
I will now transfer my audio drives over and reinstall plugins etc open up a proper session to give it a proper test.