Hi,
I am using Asus A8N-E motherboard and have recently got myself Triband. this is the first time I am using my onboard network port. The port kept on showing problems in Device Manager, so I installed the old drivers which came with the motherboard CD instead of the updated nVidia chipset drivers downloaded from the website.
After this the network port started working but I still have to restart the PC after changing IP/DHCP/DNS settings. Also, the DHCP keeps on hunting for the IP and shows similar notification in the tray. Somehow I still feel that this is a driver issue.
Any solution ? If I get myself a wireless card will it affect the triband speed and resolve this problems?
^^^try assigning static ip(i.e wrt pc and ur router)…this static ip is different from whch the server assigns to your router…get into the tcp/ip properties of ur network card…manually enter following parameters…
ip address:192.168.1.3
subnet mask:255.255.255.0
default gateway:192.168.1.1
and the defalut and alternate dns servers as entered in your router(default triband dns servers)…save and restart your pc…and then try…hope this works…
no, the wireless card wont affect your speed…they are sought to support maximum bandwidth of 54mbps…but may affect depending upon the signal strength…
No. Doing that doesnt help. Its been around 8 months that I have got myself a new rig but I had disabled the onboard network port as I was not going to use it until now. This is the first time that I have enabled it. I know that it cannot be a hardware problem as it is working with a set of old drivers (provided on the mobo CD). Also, the router’s DHCP may be a problem by itself isnt it (I actually checked it on my notebook and found that the DHCP was working fine).
I was just wondering what is causing my PC’s network card not to pick up the IP from the DHCP. I tried manually releasing and renewing but that doesnt help either.
is your net working fine on your other system(laptop/pc)..?
is dhcp enabled in your router settings..?
also try this thing…under tcp/ip properties, click on advanced and under “WINS” tab check “enable NetBios over tcp/ip”…see if this helps…and do get bck with the queries…
