32-bit Ethernet that work (constant lockups,blue screen) 600

[DJ UDX]

One final question regarding this Thinkpad 600 2645-45U (I think that's the number).

Just recently I noticed that this unit that I have (though it works) has broken white cover on the inside of PCMCIA slots (cover surrounding the pins that is).

Not sure if that matters but I am having a horrible time setting up Network adapter on this model. Everything does seem to work
fine but network cards that are 32-bit and very fast as opposed
to 16-bit cards that really don't run at 100 megabits no matter
what.

In the lower slot I am running a Margi DVD Decoder and to fully take advantage of second slot, my best choice is to run a network card (I could use USB 2.0 but every network adapter I found is
very slow; Linksys, COMPUSA, ADMTek via USB - I think this is some sort of limitation).

So I have NetGear FA511 (ADMTek chip), 3Com Combo 10/100 with 56k Modem (Modem is disabled), right now I am trying Realtek 8169 Gigabit in upper slot, and also I have tried USRobotics
7901A (7901A for example just turns off and then upon reboot,
it may not even find this card).

Every one of these cards when transferring some larger amounts of data will suddenly give a blue screen and thinkpad restarts.

I am also not positive but it might be the power issue rather than some IRQ issue, or data rate with this PCMCIA card. I think I had
this operating OK when nothing is in the lower slot. I disable the modem in some instances as the cards supposedly need the
extra resources so they can be alocated.

It appears that 16-bit cards work OK (Netgear FA411, Dlink 670 TXD though it occasionally one will get that error message that PCMCIA MTD-0002 was found) however, they are not nearly fast
enough to support DVD playback via network).

Realtek 8169 seems to be the best performer which I am using
at the moment (Trendnet TEGPCBUSR Gigabit - B.T.W. Every Gigabit on the market seems to have this same chip, Netgear GA511, Linksys, Edimax yaddi yaddi and Trendent is only 24.99).

I also turned off "allow XP to turn off network card to save power" and so far DVD that has a higher compression ratio (4 times VCD, I guess 450 kbytes) has been playing for about 45 mins.

I haven't tested any data transfers but it seems to be ok.

Did anyone run into a similar problem? What card would be optimal for this thinkpad?

Again USB2.0 card with Lexar Jumpdrive seems to work fine. It's just network cards that always give me trouble.