Issues with 8RDA+ onboard Lan?

[HammerD]

Are there any known issues with the Epox 8RDA+ onboard Lan? I have a rev 1.1 board that is voltage modded and overclocked to 10 x 200.

It has been running perfectly stable for months, however I haven't used the onboard LAN in awhile.

So I tried it last night any it is not able to recieve any data. It sends out data (or tries to) but nothing is ever received back. I have the machine just connected to a hub with another machine on that hub, too.

If I throw in a realtek 100Mbit PCI nic it works no problems - I can ping the other machine. But the onboard LAN doesn't ever receive any data..so the other machine can't ping it.

Has anyone else had this issue?

[EPoX Tech]

Have you the MAC address synchronized ?

[HammerD]

Originally Posted by EPoX Tech

Have you the MAC address synchronized ?

I'm not sure what you mean by this?

[Ancient1]

look here for the answer - http://www.motherboardfaqs.com/article.php?27.255

MAC = machine address . (low level "language")
it solved me the same problem you have !

[HammerD]

Originally Posted by Ancient1

look here for the answer - http://www.motherboardfaqs.com/article.php?27.255

MAC = machine address . (low level "language")
it solved me the same problem you have !

Thanks! I will try that out tonight

[T RAND]

Originally Posted by HammerD

Thanks! I will try that out tonight

If it doesn't work, then you might try entering the other (last) 6 characters of the address into the BIOS.

[HammerD]

Originally Posted by T RAND

If it doesn't work, then you might try entering the other (last) 6 characters of the address into the BIOS.

Thanks guys that worked for me Cheers!

[Ancient1]

my first post in this forum to HammerD, and my nick in Tribes is DAS+HAmmER

[Flak]

Originally Posted by Ancient1

my first post in this forum to HammerD, and my nick in Tribes is DAS+HAmmER :)

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[mrestine]

Originally Posted by EPoX Tech

Have you the MAC address synchronized ?

I just checked my system and don't have the MAC address synchronized. I installed the O/S with a Kingston NIC PCI card in order to download SP1 from the MS Windows Update site. After all the patches were applied to the O/S, I intalled the nVidia 3.13 WHQL drivers and and removed the Kingston NIC. I then switched my networking connection to the nVidia LAN. I use a router/hardware firewarll between my system and my cable modem. No problems as far as I can tell, but I have two questions:

1. Should I go ahead and synchronize the MAC address in the BIOS?

2. When viewing the Network Adapters in Device Manager with the "Show hidden devices" option selected, I notice that there are still two devices listed for the Kingston NIC (Kingston EtherRx KNE111TX PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter w/icon faded and Kingston EtherRx KNE111TX PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter - Packet Scheduler Miniport w/o icon faded). Should I manually uninstall these devices?

Thanx in advance.

Mike Sr

[TonyCarr]

If your lan works well , don't bother trying to uninstall those other drivers/devices . I did pretty much the same as you did on one build and messed up my winXP and lan connection trying to disable and remove the old pci nic items entirely .
Lately I have burned the nvidia lan drivers or all of 3.13 to cd and installed them , that way , one does not need the pci nic .

Good Luck .