2 ethernet ports.

[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.

 

[jlazzaro]

i assume you have link lights on the non-working ethernet port, just no DHCP address. Are you sure its set to DHCP, and have you tried assigned a static IP? can you ping the loopback address at 127.0.0.1?

to answer your question, yes, ethernet ports randomly fail...this however does not sound like your issue.