G4 PowerMac (MDD - 1.25Ghz) and no gigabit ethernet

I have a problem with my G4 MDD. It will not run gigabit ethernet. I've used the cables, airport extreme base station with my PowerBook with no problem. The MDD will not run 1 Gb!! 10/100 are fine. Manually forcing 1Gb doesn't work - neither does autoselect. I am running 10.4.11. Tried it with Leopard and that doesn't work either.
Anyone seen this? Are there any issues with the machines and 1Gb?? If not I guess my machine has a bad ethernet port and I will have to run at 100Mb (kinds slow for SAN disks!)

Hate to disagree but..
And I stand corrected. I just tested my MDD here at work, set to Auto-configure the Ethernet port which System Profiler reports as being 1000BaseT/Full-Duplex. Copying a 1.7GB folder took 2:29 to the desktop; same folder copy to my G5 took 2:07. I'll attribute the time difference to the PATA vs. SATA drives in the respective machines.
I might suspect a bad Ethernet driver limiting you to 100Mbps. Either try a different User account, or an Archive & Install of the OS.
-Douggo

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