Strange problems with Onboard LAN/firewall

[P.W.E.I0001]

This is related to a previous thread.

http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread...=&threadid=1890

 

I am opening a new thread as I am not sure if there is another issue occuring as the fix in that thread did initally resolve my problem.

 

Adding the NV(MAC) in the bios got the connection up for a time anyways.. It did work once I set the NAM (Network Access Manager) to Force negotiantion 100MB connection. I had the firewall on and set custom settings and got it working.

Then for no explicable reason the next day the connection just stop workign at least partially. My xfire works to connect to game chat, but I cannot browse any pages. Turn firewall on or off does not resolve the issue. Reinstalled the drivers

What it looks like now is that I stopped getting Domain resolution, but as I work for the ISP i get my connection from I know the name servers I have set are working, and did previously work on my connection.

 

Anyone else getting strange issue with the ethernet I think this is maybe more of a driver issue or something with the NAM...any suggestions?

[epoch]

what OS and more importantly what service pack are you using???

 

i suspect XP with SP2??

[P.W.E.I0001]

Yup.. Blew my C partition completely clean install and now it is working, although the ethernet port still does not want to play nice with my netopia caymen router. I can not resolve DNS (yes it did work previously and is set correct) but IP connections do work...anyways, plugging directly to my modem works so that is what i am doing until I can figure out the netopia issue.

[epoch]

thought so, i dont think it is the router it is more likely to be SP2, if you can reinstall with SP1A and it will be ok if not then you need to run the file below, SP2 screw up the tcp/ip settings / winsock.

 

try this:

first winsock fix

 

if that fails try this:

2nd winsock fix

[P.W.E.I0001]

Originally posted by epoch

thought so, i dont think it is the router it is more likely to be SP2, if you can reinstall with SP1A and it will be ok if not then you need to run the file below, SP2 screw up the tcp/ip settings / winsock.

 

try this:

first winsock fix

 

if that fails try this:

2nd winsock fix

 

Thanks will give it a try and post back if it fixes the issue