Soyo Dragon Plus! On-Board Ethernet

[Decobra98]

I just got my new Dragon M/B and assembled it with an Athlon XP 1800+ Processor and it booted up fine and no problems whatsoever (I LOVE IT) But when I went to connect to the internet though my LAN on the on-board Ethernet the IP would not resolve and no connection could be made. I contacted my service provider and their troubleshooting didn't help and was pretty much everything that I had already tried. So to temporarily remedy the problem I put in my PCI network adapter in and tried running the LAN through that. Fortunatly that worked fine and I get the network to connect and I have access now but only through the adapter. Please advise me to what my problem may be, especially if you have had this problem yourself. I would like to be able to use this great function on the motherboard.

 

[alrocky]

Did you install the LAN drivers that came on the Soyo CD?

 

[wackyquacky]

Which OS are you using?

 

[Jeomite]

Make sure Onboard LAN is ENABLED in the BIOS. Then you need to install the drivers (found on the Soyo CD). If you are running Windows XP, you don't have to install the drivers (it autodetects the ethernet)...

 

[TheSwarm]

What Jeomite said. The onboard LAN is disabled after you clear the CMOS, I think. Even if it used to be enabled in the BIOS, check it again. Also, be sure you are running the BIOS in normal mode and not turbo mode.