Onboard Lan not working at all

[Raphael Argus]

Hoping someone can help me out. I've got a Asus p4s8x motherboard with an onboard lan built onto it. This is my friends PC, he had a worm on the bootsector of his harddisk and I had to totally wipe everything and reinstall his OS. Everything is up and smooth now except I absolutely cannot get the dang onboard lan card to work. It keeps telling me I have a cable unplugged, bu t the device shows up as working properly. I checked the BIOS, I have the onboard device turned on. Even the little light on the lan won't come on. I'm going nuts, I'm starting to think it's just shot. I uninstalled the drivers and manually installed the drivers for the lan card that were downloaded right from Asus. Same problem. I suppose I can just disable it in the BIOS and have my friend buy a cheap NIC card, but it seems a waste if I'm just doing something wrong.

Any suggestions?

OS is Windows XP Pro with SP1

Throwing in a seperate NIC card I was able to connect to the net without any problem.

 

[dnoch]

I had something similar happen once. One day, completely out of the blue, my NIC stopped working, I had to buy another one.

 

[PhillipBelcher]

does it show up in the device manager?

 

[Raphael Argus]

Yep, shows up in device manager as working properly. The LED light isn't coming on and it just keeps saying I have a network cable unplugged. It was being used two days ago before my friend got the worm, so I'm not sure if it died or it's something else.

 

[mersyone]

highly possible that it has just had its "time".

when you switched from your friends house, installing os over again, reformatting, that does alot of load on a motherboard.

typically those types of devices last 2-4 years. I had a modem that BLEW OUT the other day on me. So if light isn't even turning on,....then....

 

[Raphael Argus]

I agree. And the MOBO is probably 4-5 years old already, I'm just turning off the lan device in the BIOS and he can have my old NIC card. Those things are cheap anyway, so I guess if something had to die that was a good thing to go!