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Jun 13, 2003, 11:46 AM
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LAN Onboard from the nForce2 or...
I just bought a nforce2 board. My question: what is better now. The Onboard LAN or my old Realtek 8139?
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Jun 13, 2003, 11:48 AM
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Which nForce2 board?
Mine is the A7N8X Deluxe.. and I'm using the 3com one (not onboard) -- the onboard doesnt even work for me.. I dont get why, I tried everything.. its enabled in the bios, enabled in windows... newest drivers installed, it just wont send packets. I dont even bother to call Asustek... it doesnt bother me, lol.
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Jun 13, 2003, 11:52 AM
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i always used the onboard lan on the nforce2 boards, and ive found them all to be very good and reliable.
personally I would just stick with the onboard. |
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Jun 13, 2003, 12:04 PM
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I'm using my onboard LAN on my v1.2 Nf7-s and am very happy with it
 no need for any extra pci nic 
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Jun 13, 2003, 12:07 PM
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Jun 13, 2003, 12:14 PM
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What I meant was the 3com is ONBOARD.. but there is another one ONBOARD - the nvidia one.. and the nvidia one doesnt work.. so I just use the 3com onboard.. sorry to confuse.
 
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Jun 13, 2003, 12:19 PM
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so tek, you are saying your mobo has two different ONBOARD LAN ports? a 3com one and an nvidia one??
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Jun 13, 2003, 01:01 PM
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Jun 13, 2003, 01:52 PM
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Tek has the same as mine, A7NV8x Deluxe, it has two lan ports onboard and nVidia and 3Com one, both work flawlessly on mine, one goes to the cable modem the other to the home network, I'm not sure why your nVidia one wouldn't work, but i think there was a driver on the CD so maybe you could try re-installing that one
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Jun 15, 2003, 03:49 AM
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yeah i also have the ASUS A7N8X Deluxe and i use the nVidia onboard LAN
Apparently it uses about 2-4% less CPU usage than the 3 Com That and i have configured the nVidia for my home network and the 3 Com for LAN's Both works very well, the green activity LED had screwed up on my nVidia one but thats nothing to worry about really, seeing as im using it now But yeah stick with the onboard, frees up a PCI slot and its there, why not use it? Hope that helps Peace Out |
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Jul 9, 2003, 09:44 PM
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I'm runnin the GA-7N400 Pro NForce 2 chipset with the nvidia mcp network adapter(onboard) only thing I've found is the default setting is optimize for cpu/throughput....I've tried both the throughput seems to work better on this chipset.....
My Rig: AMD 3000+ Barton 2.17 GHz 500 Watt PSU Vantec Aeroflow TMD cooled 1.5GB Samsung DDR 400 GA-7N400 Pro Modded F9 Bios 2 ATA 133 Maxtor Diamond (Raid 0) ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB Audigy 2 Logitech Z-640 5.1 TDK Indigo DVD Burner Pioneer DVD Front loader ImageQuest L70a Digital/Analog Monitor |
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Jul 9, 2003, 09:48 PM
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Have a 10/100/1000 on board and runs great.....!!!!
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