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Nforce 3 Ethernet problems again

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Killroy X

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So after a couple weeks and some help on these forums, I got my new Abit NF8 to connect to the internet. I reinstalled the 5.11 drivers and it was working fine.

But today, while on the Internet, all of a sudden I got a pop up in the lower right corner

"Lan Connection unplugged"

Nothing was unplugged, so I'm not sure what happened. Restarted, same. I looked on the back of my computer and the amber light is now blinking. Reinstalled ethernet drivers, nothing.

It's not my cable provider because I'm on the internet now with my other crappy computer. I've had more problems in the last 2 weeks than I've ever had with any computer I've ever had. Is this motherboard corrupt?

 
no, you are just using the 5.11 drivers. don't use ethernet drivers from this one, use the 5.10 ethernet driver instead
 
No such luck with 5.10's either.

Couldn't I just add a new NIC card to the motherboard and use that? Wouldn't that solve my problems?
 
Couldn't I just add a new NIC card to the motherboard and use that? Wouldn't that solve my problems?
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Yep you can,I had similar problem,in the end I put it down to my onboard LAN had died and I just stuck my cheapo Netgear NIC in and was back up and running.
 
That's why they include all those PCi slots, even on mobo's w/integrated everything & a half x two.
 
So, just got done adding the NIC and before I even moved the Cat 5 cable to the new connection, my Internet is working!

How is this happening? It's still saying network cable is unplugged, but here I am!

I am baffled. So, added the NIC, did not touch change the cable to the NIC...Internet?

wha?
 
Had the same problem, was dual booting and it stopped working in both installs (so I know it wasn't software/driver)... after a day of no internet, disabled NIC in the bios put in a PCI one... later on decided to give the onboard a try again, worked for a month or two and stopped AGAIN. Said f that, disabled it in the bios and have been using my trusty 3com NIC since. No point having your network connection randomly stop working. I think there is just a big (hardware) problem with the nvidia nf3 NIC that never got fixed.
 
Originally posted by: Killroy X
So, just got done adding the NIC and before I even moved the Cat 5 cable to the new connection, my Internet is working!

How is this happening? It's still saying network cable is unplugged, but here I am!
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The "cable unplugged" message is for the new NIC. If you put a 3Com or Realtek one in, Windows already has drivers.
 
Not when I tried hooking up 3 different cables with the same problem (was abviously the first thing to check/do).
 
Originally posted by: DaveBC

sounds like a bad or intermittant cat 5 cable.
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No, the problem w/ integrated NIC for Nforce3/4 boards are quiet common. The problem is immediately solved if you put in an pci-based NIC. Same cable, same internet settings.
I know some bios updates (have seen this with bios updates from MSI) wipes out the MAC address to 000000000. You can fix it by manually inputting the MAC address during the bios update process (or from windows).
 
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