Ethernet shield doesn't work with Mega 2560

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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I'm having trouble with my Ethernet Shield, without it my mega 2560 works fine but when it's plugged in the mega won't run any sketch and I can't upload one.

If I try to upload a sketch with the shield connected I get this error:
avrdude: stk500v2_getsync(): timeout communicating with programmer

I've read on another thread that sometimes you need to unsolder a capacitor to make it work... here's what the shield looks like:

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Looks like a clone of the Arduino shield.

You might want to contact the original vendor (whoever it is) and get a schematic.

Make sure they ran the signals to the ICSP header correctly.