XP SP-2

[Charlie King]

It has wrecked the onboard LAN in my A7V8X. I had to put in a PCI LAN
card. Others, not all of them Asus users, have reported similar
problems. In my case, the Broadcom LAN gets given an inappropriate IP
address.

My motherboard is a K8V SE Deluxe which uses Marvell onboard
10/100/1000 LAN. XP SP2 caused me no problems with that hardware.

XP SP2 does close a number of ports by default which will surprise you
if you've not read the documentation: assorted network shares may
dissapear, software that uses ports that have been closed will b0rk,
etc. These symptoms can look a little like NW Hardware issues.

It's difficult to see how the software could fry your LAN. I can see
that the vendor's drivers may have have issues that cause them to stop
working. If you can find a DOS driver for it, you could try booting
from a DOS bootdisk and seeing if you can ping across the interface,
otherwise KNOPPIX might be able to load it (unfortunately it doesn't
see my Marvell), so you can test the issue away from XPSP2

You say the device is being given an inappropriate IP address, which
would imply that the hardware is still working enough to query a DHCP
server, get an address and confgure it. In what way is the address
inappropriate? Where is the DHCP server - is it yours, or your ISP's?

 

[Dave]

How do you get into the XP firewall system to make manual settings?
I am new to Windows XP (Home Edition)
Thanks
DW

 

[kenward]

My motherboard is a K8V SE Deluxe which uses Marvell onboard
10/100/1000 LAN. XP SP2 caused me no problems with that hardware.

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Thanks. I should also have added that SP2 did not mess up the LAN on
my A78NX-VM motherboard. That came pre-messed, and how I sorted it is
another story.


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[kenward]

Since I installed SP2, TWO planes have crashed in Russia - surely that
can't be coincidence?

If there is a link between your PC and the software on board those
planes, then if I were you I would go into hiding.

In my case, the printer comes with a software interface that talks to
the PC. The printer hardware works just fine. It is just MS Word and
the machine that don't like one another. All other software is working
as it did pre SP2.




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[Barry Watzman]

Right click on Network Places, properties, right click on local area
connection, properties, advanced tab, settings.

 

[Dave]

Subject: Re: XP SP-2

From: Barry Watzman
Date: 8/27/2004 9:01 PM

Right click on Network Places, properties,
right click on local area connection, properties,
advanced tab, settings.

Thanks a bunch Barry

Later
DW