BIOS Update to attempt to fix onboard network.

[Craig321]

Hi,

A while back my onboard network plug broke. It detects and it sits there in the connections folder but when I plug the wire in to it it just says the wire is unplugged.

I have done the setting the duplex trick, tried the setting my own IP thing etc. but nothing worked. So I put in a network card from my other PC & it works perfectly so it's nothing to do with my settings, it's definitely broken (I also reinstalled Windows since it's been broken so it's 100% not working).

Someone suggested to me that I upgrade the BIOS as that's what they did and it fixed it for them.

Is it worth me upgrading the BIOS? Or is there a very slim chance it'll work?

Here are my current BIOS details:

Motherboard Properties
Motherboard BIOS DATE: 12/22/05 13:57:10 VER: 08.00.10
Motherboard Name Asus P5P800 SE

Latest verion on the ASUS site under my motherboard is 0803 so I guess it's 08.03.00 ?

EDIT

I really can't think how a BIOS update would help as the LAN was always working until one day when it just didn't work. But I guess it could do some magic and help the problem?

Thanks,
Craig.

 

[WJA96]

ASUS motherboards are very sensitive to the order of installation of drivers. It didn't happen to break after you'd done a re-install did it?

What I've usually found is that you have to install the Intel update first, then the original drivers off the CD. After that then you can update the drivers freely.

Admittedly, this experience is pretty much limited to the ASUS Vintage range, but others have reported that re-installing the original drivers in the suggested order has fixed their onboard LAN too.

 

[Craig321]

ASUS motherboards are very sensitive to the order of installation of drivers. It didn't happen to break after you'd done a re-install did it?

What I've usually found is that you have to install the Intel update first, then the original drivers off the CD. After that then you can update the drivers freely.

Admittedly, this experience is pretty much limited to the ASUS Vintage range, but others have reported that re-installing the original drivers in the suggested order has fixed their onboard LAN too.

Definitely not the drivers. This happened before my reinstall and continued to be like this after the reinstall