Network Port doesnt work on first boot

[dave87]

Somehow me thinks Zakky has experiences of dead motherboards in his not too distant past...am I right?

[Zak33]

/\ oooh....he's good

Dead good......

[abeacock]

Actually reading about the network light going out on reboot reminded me of when I had a broken network port on my motherboard.

Lightning struck our house and knackered my router and the network port of my motherboard, it was an intermittent fault and could be fixed by unplugging and plugging the network cable back in or performing a proper power off-on cycle.

Sounds like the same sort of issue.

Do you have a spare network card you could try in your PC to see if that fixes the issue?

Have you had any thunderstorms recently?

[streetster]

Actually reading about the network light going out on reboot reminded me of when I had a broken network port on my motherboard.

Lightning struck our house and knackered my router and the network port of my motherboard, it was an intermittent fault and could be fixed by unplugging and plugging the network cable back in or performing a proper power off-on cycle.

Sounds like the same sort of issue.

Do you have a spare network card you could try in your PC to see if that fixes the issue?

Have you had any thunderstorms recently?

my sister has the same issue on her pc, except that unplugging the network cable and plugging it back in doesnt always work... put a new network card in, and it works every time now

[LWA]

On Sair's Shuttle ST20G5 the network port doesn't work (isn't active at all) on first boot.

Hmm strange one Zakk; just a quick point, I have the exact same Shuttle and I don't experience that problem.

As has been pointed out, it must be another case of Zakki-itus

I can't see any fixes for your issue on Shuttle's BIOS update page: (under revision history)

http://global.shuttle.com/Download/D...sp?Item=ST20G5

[Carlh]

Personally I cant see this being resolved with a bios update as it sounds as though its a fault with the board and the onboard network card.

I have had a similar issue in the past and the only resolution was either use a PCI card or change the board.

[Zak33]

Rightyo......Feb 07 update.

Got Brave. Downloaded BIOS and Award Flash utility.

/deep breath. Flashed.... (got a few things mildly wrong: it asked for the bios new name....i typed it...it asked for a name of the old bios...i typed the word "old" (cunning huh) It got half way through and decided the file was no good.....I sussed out (from bitter previous experience) that the name was wrong cos I had'nt put the .bin file format on the end of the saved file. Started over..... new biosname......old.bin.... not enough space on floppy! Stop panicking, it fine.....take floppy out, check on other PC.... you've got old and old.bin! Ok, repeat process..... new name.....old.bin....still doesnt work.... turns out you gotta write new.bin and then old.bin..worked)

Wipe fevered sweat from brow, reboot....

And still the network card only works on a no power boot, if it's a power off, don't unplug, and reboot...it doesnt show.

Give up.

Install old 10/100 card from pile of hardware.

Sorted Stoopid mobo.

[abeacock]

It's a shame after all that effort it still didn't work but at least you have a working network port now. I had to do the same when lightning blew my gigabit network port on my old motherboard.

[Zak33]

tis a shame, and more so because I have nice sound card (nicer than the onboard version) for it, but it wont go in now, as the PCI slot's taken.

Never mind...done