Onboard LAN not working after changing PSU

tingi

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Nov 22, 2007
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I went to bed last night and I left my computer on as always. I woke up this morning to find it shut down. It turned out that my PSU got fried sometime during the night. I went ahead and bought a brand new Antec 550w and installed it. I plugged the power cord in without plugging anything else in just to check if the motherboard wasn't damaged. All was well so I plugged everything else in and booted into Windows.

That's when I noticed that my internet connection wasn't working. There was no LAN icon on the taskbar showing that a cable was unplugged. I checked device manager only to find out that Windows did not find any ethernet adapters. The drivers are installed but there's no ethernet adapter. I updated the drivers and all, disabled/re-enabled LAN in BIOS, still nothing.

Then I checked the ethernet port. The speed LED is off. The ACT/Link LED is always orange. Whatever I do it's always orange. As soon as I plug the power cord in it lights up. Even with the ethernet cable unplugged it's still very orange.

Does that mean that my ethernet adapter is damaged? Please post any thoughts you might have. Thank you.


Specs:

Asus P5LD2 Deluxe motherboard (onboard LAN - Marvell 88E8053)
Pentium D 820 2.8Ghz
2Gb RAM
NVidia GeForce 7800GTX 256Mb
Audigy 2
Antec 550Watt PSU
 

fire400

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Nov 21, 2005
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flash your board to see if that'll fix it.

otherwise get a pci ethernet.

you're lucky the psu snap didn't take the entire board, but it'z not uncommon if it causes other devices on your board to become dysfunctional

could be an OS thing too, hidden stock drivers that will override new drivers even if you install new ones over it, won't even show.
 

Regalk

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reinstall Lan drivers. It should be green when youplug in the cable . If still not going just get a PCI LAN card.