Posted: 1/6/2006 4:27:31 PM EDT
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(Copied from AT Tech support forum, because that place is really slow) My new computer is not recognizing its onboard ethernet connection It says it has 2 IEEE 1394 network connections, but despite having used the same network cable as is in this one (plugged to the same spot on the router), it won't add a LAN connection. The lights go on in the ethernet port in the motherboard, but the computer refuses to recognize the connection. Edit: I've tried installing the drivers from the Gigabyte website (transferred via thumbdrive), but it says "there is not enough space on drive C:\ to extract this package. Please free up 53.93MB and click Retry." The drivers from another source (apparently the same file) say the same. I have approximately 272 GB free, so unless this file is absolutely massive (and yet somehow fits in a package of 35 MB), it's not working. In all other manners, the computer is working perfectly, all other peripherals and cards are working, etc., but I can't get the ethernet to work. |
It's enabled. I might try getting another LAN card to install, but before that I want to exhaust all options. The port tower that the LAN is on has 2 USB, 1 LAN, and the 2 USB ports work fine. My mouse is in one of the ports now, and responding perfectly.
Yeah, 1394 is firewire. I did get a driver disk for the mobo, and I installed all drivers on it except those for the onboard audio and the AMD 'cool and quiet' operation, both of which are unnecessary. |
ASUS A8N32 SLI Deluxe? |
Umm, just a question but is your hard drive actually labeled as the C:\ drive. On my laptop my c:\ drive is actually a card reader and I get this error when I forget to change the path to the F:\ drive. |
No, just 2 1394 controllers.
No, Gigabyte GA-K8N pro-SLI.
Yes, my HDD is the C:\ drive. On ATTS, it was suggested that I run Memtest-86, so I'm running that, and that will take a while, it seems. I doubt it'll turn up problems, but I guess no harm in running it. |
It doesn't appear there, you can be sure of that. Only the two 1394 cards do.
Okay, I'll try that, if you can explain how. I know many of the BIOS options, but I don't know where that one is or what its options are. |