nVidia Ethernet Won't Work

[Shin Mojo Jojo]

I've got an MSI K8N Neo Platinum with 250 gb nForce chipset, but it refuses to connect online. Looking through all the connections and whatnot, it's acknowledged as working fine, but, for whatever reason, it refuses to pick up an IP address. I've gone so far as to manually configure the thing with a working DNS server and so forth, and even that didn't help.

What's wrong with this thing? Is there an obscure driver floating around that I haven't stumbled upon or am I going to have to send this back to Newegg?

Edit: I'm working on Windows XP Home Edition SP2. It didn't work on SP1 or without a service pack, either. And I've installed all the drivers and stuff that came with it.

 

[amdskip]

Onboard can act like that sometimes. Try a pci card and if that does not work, something else is wrong, possibly rma on the motherboard.

 

[Roadraider]

funny thing. I have an Asus A7N8X Deluxe that started doing the same thing!

Mine has 2 onboard NICs, one is the NVidia and a 3Com one. BOTH have been actingup lately and finally 2 days ago they both do not connect anymore! I have reinstalled drivers and protocol stacks but without success.

I also ran the diagnostics on the NICs and they come up clean. Both NICs seem to be sending data out just fine; it is the receiving that is not happening.

I could drop in a PCI Nic but it is annoying to have to do something like that with 2 onboard NICs! Has anyone else had this issue?

 

[Shin Mojo Jojo]

I have a PCI network card installed, but like Roadraider said, it's annoying to do something like that when you've spent $200 to not do so. Appreciate the replies, though.

 

[Roadraider]

Actually, I found out that my issue was the router, not the mobo.

So, you might want to check with MSI about RMAs