8rda

[rishy]

ii have the EPOX 8RDA+ mothboardand have two problems

1.
the built on network card keeps disappearing - if a have a look in the BIOS the entry has disappeared , if i power off wait 10 minutes and power back on all is ok

2.
some times the board refuses to power up again if i wait a few minutes powers on fine . i have a Enermax 350w PSU connected


can anyone shed any light , i have the latest BIOS from www.epox.org

[golfer49]

Not knowing the all the componets within your system, and whether or not you are overclocking, you may want to try a larger power supply, say 450 watts or bigger?

[rishy]

System specs as follows

Athlon XP 2400+ (not overclocked at the moment)
2 x Twinmos 512 PC3200
Adaptec 2940U SCSI Card
Asus MX 440 AGP VGA card

2 x Western digital 120GB hdd
2 x Maxtor 80 GB HDD

PC MODS Bay bus with 5 80mm fans - connected but powered off

all running from a Enermax 350 W PSU

[bigblue]

Try going back to 3129. Heard that onboard NIC is goofy with the newer BIOSs.

[bigblue]

Here is something from 8RDAfaq.com

"Onboard LAN / Network not working after flashing bios

If you just flashed to a new bios and your onboard LAN isn't working, I have a fix for you. Go to the command prompt and type "ipconfig /all". Here is an image of what should come up (a couple of things have been removed for privacy reasons) . Take a piece of paper and write down the numbers that are highlighted.




Now restart your system, and enter the "Integrated Peripherals" section in the bios. Enable "Machine MAC(NV) Address" and Input a mac address. You will only be putting in the first half of the number above, so in our example we would be using "000661".



And that's it! Save the settings and reboot and see if this fixes the problem. If it doesn't then you might want to make sure all your drivers are up to date, and in the worst case, go back to a previous bios version."



You might want to go there yourself to see the pics.

[rishy]

where can i get 3129 from ?

[dod]

AOA Files.

Second one down

[waylman]

The 2 issues you are having are exactly what happened to me with my new 8rda+ Thanks to these forums it's fixed.
For the power on/off problem flashing to the newest bios did the trick for me. As for your NIC, I had to enable it in BIOS and then put first 6 numbers of MAC address in.
Now it runs like a champ!