up and running

vvarrior · Post by **vvarrior** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 10:58 am

(DFI NF4 SLI-DR Expert)

I'm up and running but have a couple problems with the onboard LAN and the ram is not being read right...

for the LAN the onboard's are a

Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit
&
Vitasse VSC8201

can't seem to get them to work..any1 have a link for the correct drivers?
I found the marvell out there recognized it but than didn't seem to work at all.
The vitasse I didn't find... There was only the Marvell one on the cd and that didn't work either =(

The ram i have ocz ddr400 2 gigs it's reading it at ddr 333 @ 2t timing

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:24 pm

Are you using 4 sticks of ram?

windows XP or XP x64?

vvarrior · Post by **vvarrior** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:39 pm

2 sticks of RAM
Windows XP

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:53 pm

You can manually change the ram speeds in the genie bios part.

the marvell should work, looks like their site has a driver for the other LAN.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 2:00 pm

update your bios to the newest version..this will help with how it detects the RAM...also once you are loaded up.. get the newest nforce drivers 6.70 I think are it for your board as I'm sure its AMD also.

http://www.nvidia.com and just follow the driver download links till it gets to it. This should solve the picking up of the LAN adaptors.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 3:40 pm

Sava700 wrote:update your bios to the newest version..this will help with how it detects the RAM...also once you are loaded up.. get the newest nforce drivers 6.70 I think are it for your board as I'm sure its AMD also.

http://www.nvidia.com and just follow the driver download links till it gets to it. This should solve the picking up of the LAN adaptors.

cool. didn't know about the nforce update.

thanks

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:31 pm

vvarrior wrote:(DFI NF4 SLI-DR Expert)

I'm up and running but have a couple problems with the onboard LAN and the ram is not being read right...

for the LAN the onboard's are a

Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit
&
Vitasse VSC8201

can't seem to get them to work..any1 have a link for the correct drivers?
I found the marvell out there recognized it but than didn't seem to work at all.
The vitasse I didn't find... There was only the Marvell one on the cd and that didn't work either =(

The ram i have ocz ddr400 2 gigs it's reading it at ddr 333 @ 2t timing

using the orange slots ?

vvarrior · Post by **vvarrior** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 11:39 pm

cool it work's on the orangle slots thnx
can't seem to get the network jacks working this is soo wierd and annoying
i even moved the network cable from one jack (dual nics) to another and the whole cpu shutdown ?????
any1 got any ideas??? I updated bios as well as nforce drivers still no go =(

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 3:44 am

vvarrior wrote:cool it work's on the orangle slots thnx
can't seem to get the network jacks working this is soo wierd and annoying
i even moved the network cable from one jack (dual nics) to another and the whole cpu shutdown ?????
any1 got any ideas??? I updated bios as well as nforce drivers still no go =(

might be a lame motherboard... if your dead set on using it then you may have to RMA.. otherwise stick a pci NIC card in it that you may have and just go with that... are you using a good Cat 5 cable? perhaps try another one cause the one your using might not be good??

vvarrior · Post by **vvarrior** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:08 pm

the cat5 works on my other cpu cuz thats the one im using now I noticed though if i unplug something from the back it may cause it to shutdown the thing i noticed in the beginning was that in the bios it says

"CMOS checksum error"
which means the battery needs to be replaced?

Iv'e never done this before but does this makes sense why the LAN wouldn't be working?

vvarrior · Post by **vvarrior** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:42 am

blah i got everything fixed except the onboard LAN...

the
Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit
&
Vitasse VSC8201

it recognizes both but when i put a network jack it issues an ip of something like 168.xxx.xxx.x takes forever to assign an ip and can't get on the internet...
having the same problem with both!@

any ideas???

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:00 am

simple questions....are you sure the bios settings for the nic(s) are setup properly. disable the wake on lan feature if it is not already. also, you might try going in under the properties for each nic and setting the speed for them manually. By defualt it is always set to auto detect....try 100 mbps full duplex.

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:01 am

loop2kil wrote:simple questions....are you sure the bios settings for the nic(s) are setup properly. disable the wake on lan feature if it is not already. also, you might try going in under the properties for each nic and setting the speed for them manually. By defualt it is always set to auto detect....try 100 mbps full duplex.

it's a known issue with DFI boards ... I saw a fix somewhere ..will look

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:41 pm

Do you have a router connected warrior?

vvarrior · Post by **vvarrior** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:29 pm

nope straight cable i tried messing around with the settings and still got nothing =(

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 6:35 pm

how about posting a screen shot of the settings?

vvarrior · Post by **vvarrior** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:51 am

i got it working i reformated, disabled wakeonlan, than when i plugged the ethernet cable in the computer i left the cable modem powered down than gave it a hard reset and it works!

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:08 am

vvarrior wrote:i got it working i reformated, disabled wakeonlan, than when i plugged the ethernet cable in the computer i left the cable modem powered down than gave it a hard reset and it works!