Replacing onboard Ethernet with NIC card

[Killroy X]

In the Motherboard forum I stated that my Nforce 3 Ethernet is driving me crazy. It just keeps going in and out. I've tried different drivers with no luck.

This might sound stupid, but couldn't I just put a NIC card in, and access the Internet that way? Instead of using the onboard connection, just add a NIC and problem solved?

Somehow I feel it will be more complicated than this, but what can I do?

 

[JackMDS]

Yeah it is a little more complicated; you need to disable the Onboard NIC in the BIOS as well.

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[Killroy X]

Hey Jack, is disabling the NIC in the BIOS a necessity? I've heard that you should to conserve resources, but it's not necessary. If it is, I would need to do this.

 

[JackMDS]

If you do not disable the Mobo card WinXP would find it and would install it. As a result, you would have an additional card installation with bound protocol etc, i.e. more resources spent and potential to troubles (Like the Bridge configuration that might installs it self uncalled for).

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[Killroy X]

Thanks for the information Jack.

Now here's a new question. I did add the NIC, but before I even changed the Lan line (CAT 5) into the new connection, or disabled anything in the BIOS, I now have Internet.

It's still stating that my network cable is unplugged, but the only thing I did was add the NIC, I have done nothing else.

On one hand, I'm glad my connection is running, but now I'm not sure how.

 

[JackMDS]

It is probably the Mobo's NIC LAN Connection that state that the Cable is Unplugged.

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