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Can't get Soyo's K7V LAN to work on my cable modem!

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Razl

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I just bought the SY-J7V Dragon+ board. The whole setup when fine, except for getting the built in LAN to work with my Cox Cable service. The lights for both the LAN and the cable modem acknolwedge a clean connection, and the device manager says everything is working OK.

I installed the Windows 2000 LAN driver's from the montherboard's CD. Again, everything looks fine, but the IE keeps reporting errors. To make sure it wan't my ISP was down or a stupid browser configuration, I installed the PCI NIC from my other system. This worked. So I'm pretty sure it's something with the built-in LAN. An idea? Should I look for another driver (VIA?)?

Thanks in advance.

BTW, yes, it is enabled in the BIOS
 
Try playing with the speed and duplex settings of the NIC. I had some troubles on my 10/100 switch where even though everything looked good, no data would pass when the setting was 100/FULL.

I scaled it back to 10/FULL and things are fine now.
 
man, you guys are smart! heh, i tried to get a hub and my network card working, and i had to do that too since one only did 10mb and some people were on 100mb, and oy! not autodetect bites! glad to hear you got everything working! PM me and let me know how the board is overall, i'm planning on buying one and would like some input!
 
I have an Epox 8KHA+ too. Both boards rock, but I must say I favor the Soyo. It's about $50 or so more, but you get LAN, 6 channel sound with optical outputs, RAID 0/1, 4 DIMMS, separate DIMM voltage setting, 6 USB ports (4 optional), Smart Card Reader, and an AGP Pro Compliant Slot.

Setup was a breeze, and I have never had a lock-up! The Epox use to reboot randomly and freeze-up sometimes, but it turned out to be an old BIOS and the use of rounded cables (looks good, but the quality was below par). Once I made those adjustments, the Epox board is 100% stable.

In addition, both boards accept the Alpha 80mm Heatsink. With my Athlon XP1700+?s, I?m running between 33-39 degrees on both boards. This is with a nice quite 80mm Fan too.

If you already have the PCI devices that the Soyo puts on the board, I?d go with the cheaper Epox. I use to just by Asus, but these two boards prove to be just as stable and perform just as well. I highly recommend either one.

Good luck! 😎
 
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