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I disabled onboard LAN since I use a 3rd party network card, disabled “wake on lan,” then opened Pro Tools, played a session, and while it was playing, disabled the pci-e net card. No freezing for about 3 minutes (when I originally said it froze every 30 seconds, I meant to say every 10, by the way.) So, I looked at the manufacturers website for an up to date net card driver, and there isn’t one. Path of least resistance, since I do occasionally need to stream stuff off the ‘net and record it, was to order a new net card. I’ve had net cards die slowly and create problems before, and I think I might have narrowed it down to this one being the issue.
I’m running latencymon, but gotta be honest, I’m not quite sure what I’m looking for, since I never had to troubleshoot on this level before. I’m anxious to see if a new $15 net card with more current drivers solves the problem.