Intel NIC on P4C800-E Deluxe

[garak]

I just bought a new Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard this week, and I was unable to get the onboard Intel CSA Gigabit network adapter to obtain a DHCP lease. At first I thought it must be some sort issue with our campus network provider, since the adapter is brand new, and it appears to be sending and receiving packets just fine. Manually assigning an IP address also failed, so I connected it directly to another computer w/ a crossover cable, assigned an IP address to each PC, but they were unable to ping eachother. I threw in a 3C905B-TX PCI network adapter and tried the same thing, and it worked just fine. I tried downloading the latest chipset and network drivers from both the Asus and Intel sites, but I still couldn't get the card to communicate over TCP/IP. All the Intel diagnostic utilities check out, and the card is sending and receiving packets. I spent a couple hours on the phone with a man from Asus Tech Support, and we couldn't come up with anything. At his urging, I reformatted again with all the BIOS settings set to their defaults and all PCI devices removed--still nothing.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what might cause this? At this point I'm beginning to think it's actually a hardware issue, but I find that hard to believe since the board is brand new and I've never had any problems with Asus before. My system specs are as follows:

Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
Intel 3.0GHz Pentium 4 (Canterwood)
Corsair 2x512MB XMS PC3200-LL
Creative Labs Audigy 2 (2nd PCI slot)
3Com 3C905B-TX (5th PCI slot, since the Intel adapter doesn't work)

I appreciate any insight that can be offered.

Thanks,
Mike Strobel

 

[skullshivers]

sounds like its either not enabled in the bios or its a hardware problem

 

[garak]

Definitely enabled in the BIOS...I think I'll call Asus and see if I can get them to cross-ship me a replacement board. I've spent so many hours on this problem that it's scarcely worth fiddling with until I've tried a replacement board and I know for sure whether or not it is a hardware problem.