Intermittent internet problem - Asus A8N-E problem?

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I am having some problems with bringing up web pages. My computer has an Asus A8N-E motherboard which I am connecting through. My router is a 3com Office Connect 11g Firewall Router. There is another computer connected to this router too.

The problem is that every now and then it just won't find websites, and I just get the white screen with the message 'Cannot Find Server'. The other computer is able to connect with no problem.

I have used the command prompt to ping the sites with the IP address, and this is fine. But doing the same with the actual address brings no reply. This is a DNS problem I've been told.

Do you think it might be a problem with the drivers for the A8N-E mobo? How do I update the network drivers for this mobo?

I'm not very computer literate, so I apologise if |I've used some wrong terms!
 
I've had problems recently with my router (a D-Link) with an A8N motherboard, It's probably totally unrelated but the router wouldn't give me any DNS servers. You can type them in manually into windows and it works fine.
 
Sorry to bring this thread back up but I had a problem with the A8N-E and the onboard LAN port myself.

Turns out many people have this problem, the A8N-E tends to assign the same IRQ resource to the SATA ports (either 1+2 or 3+4) as to the onboard lan port and this can cause conflicts. (i kept getting corrupted downloads).

By disabling SATA ports 3+4 it fixed the problem, in conjunction with not installing the Nvidia Network Manager drivers that came with the motherboard.

Hope this helps if anyone else has the same problem as it had me stumped for awhile and I've heard of people giving up and buying a pci lan card to get around the problem so it might save someone a few £.

Cheers
 
I have hit this intermitten problem too.
the IRQ allocation is pretty bad on this mobo - the sound card and grafix card also shared an IRQ forcing me to shift the sound to a different slot.

with mine I use all four sata's therefore nulifying the fix above.

this is very disappointing as I would expect ASUS to know better
 
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