2 ethernet ports, one dies all of a sudden

[guynexdoor]

I have a mobo w/ 2 ethernet ports. It's the K8N Neo 4.

I've been using the top one, the nforce nvdia ethernet.

The other port is the marvell yukon one, I know that it is called this b/c on the mobo set up CD that is what it is called. Anyway, I've never had to use the 2nd ethernet port b/c the first one always worked fine.

ALL of a sudden, and I'm not exxagerating here, I lose connection to the internet, and so I restart. It keeps trying to acquire network address, but it never connects.

I finally install the marvell yukon drivers, and use the other port, and now I have internet. Is there any way to explain this?

Again, it was all of a sudden. I didn't install anything, or add new hardware. I was online the whole time, and all of a sudden it just stopped working, and restarting doesn't work.

I'm typing this from my laptop.

Any ideas?

Is it possible that the particular ethernet port is physically damaged? If so...how? I don't even touch those connections.

 

[Mr Pickles]

Ports die, life goes on. No blinking lights no nothing? You're SOL.

 

[NoelS]

guynexdoor,

Good thing you had 2 LAN ports, eh? My brand new ASUS P5K-E mobo has only 1 LAN port, so I hope I don't lose it - I'd have to RMA the board.

That raises the question, how old is your mobo? Does it still have warranty? You could call tech support and RMA it. If you do, ask for a cross-ship so you don't have to wait for them to test it, repair it and then send it back. You'll get a new board before you have to send your old one back.

Noel