Borked LAN port? :/

Urban Reflex · 25 Sep 2009 at 21:04

Oh dear. It seems like I've borked my second LAN port on my motherboard :/

I recently got some new RAM and a new hard drive, so I put them in and everything is working fine. While I have my case open, I figure now would be a good idea to give my PC a little MOT of sorts. I dust it out with a paint brush, rework a few cables, put it all together and WHAM! No internet via LAN 2.

LAN 1 works fine. Though it was working once I had the new components installed, I tried removing them but same story. Tried installing a fresh copy of Windows to see if it was software related, but nope.

Any ideas what else I can try?

Kennysevenfold · 25 Sep 2009 at 21:45

is it detected in the device manager.?

Any problems stated there.?

Urban Reflex · 26 Sep 2009 at 20:04

No, Device Manager says that both LAN ports are working properly. Here's a snapshot of both ports' details panels. The two on the left are for the working port.

Redache · 26 Sep 2009 at 20:30

You could try reinstalling the Nforce Drivers and see if that helps.

Kennysevenfold · 26 Sep 2009 at 20:48

Redache said:
You could try reinstalling the Nforce Drivers and see if that helps.

Damm you

Or disable and enable them.?

Sure the cable is ok.?

EsaT · 26 Sep 2009 at 21:15

Redache said:
You could try reinstalling the Nforce Drivers and see if that helps.

I think reinstalling OS includes that...

Hard to confirm anything but could be even case of ESD damage.

Redache · 27 Sep 2009 at 02:42

I think reinstalling OS includes that...

It depends, If he installed Windows 7 then it auto installs the Nforce Drivers, but they might not be the most up to date ones and could have a known issue. It's still the easiest thing to check.

Mr-White · 27 Sep 2009 at 09:47

Check the bios and then reset it ?

The LAN ports are always dying on the Fujitsu computers we have at work

MW

Urban Reflex · 28 Sep 2009 at 01:41

I've checked the cable by plugging it into the working LAN port, so the cable and the port on the router are fine. I run Vista 64 normally, so disabled and renabled, uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers on that to no avail. The fresh copy of Windows I install was Windows 7, and it didn't work either before or after I installed the Nvidia drivers. And yes, I have even tried restore the BIOS to factory defaults!

GhostlyPea · 28 Sep 2009 at 08:00

169.254.x.x = APIPA so it is trying to aquire an IP address and failing. Try setting the IP manually and see what happens

- Pea0n

Urban Reflex · 28 Sep 2009 at 21:24

Doesn't really change anything. I still get the 'limited connection' status.