GA-MA790XT-UDP4

[findingZzero]

MY Comcast cable connection times out on a semi-regular basis. It could be fine for an hour, then gets timed out b4 a website can load. This has been going on for years w/o a solution. I can usually recover by powering down/up my modem and router, but this is not why I'm paying $50/mo. I had the cable guy out when this happened and he found a perfect signal and working modem. He replaced my modem anyway (I'd already tried this to no avail).  He did notice that the ethernet connection to the motherboard showed the left side led light out and the right side a steady yell/orange no blinking. According to my manual if the left led is off, my connection speed is no more than 10Mbps. There is no description for a steady right side orange/yellow led, only blinking (good) and off (bad). While this is occurring my connection is fine. Is my nic card bad? I guess I wil check the led's when I'm timed out. Device manager shows no conflicts and says the device is working properly. Any takers?

[autotech]

Get a network card for 10 dollars at wal mart and add it in to your computer if you have a pci slot get one that fits it they make them pci-! also if thats what you have otherwise you can try uninstalling it and let windows find the drivers for it after a reboot. About all i can say i have had to add card at times cause the onboard wasnt great.

[findingZzero]

I was going to just try a new nic. Yesterday I thought about doing an uninstall as you mentioned but caught myself because w/o an nic how would it search the web? I think it said it had no backup driver. Could I put a driver on a flash drive and reinstall thatway b4 I uninstall my nic card?

[findingZzero]

Sorry I mean't a rollback. I just did an uninstall/ reinstall. Will advise.

[findingZzero]

I pulled a NIC out of an old PC. Put it in a PCI slot (had to remove the metal holder) and connected the ethernet cable there. It works! Let's see if it holds up. The native NIC looks like a module. Is that built in or can it be pulled and replaced?

[autotech]

cant be replaced by someone like you or me but if you sent it in for repair gigabyte could replace it but im sure if no warranty it would cost..  Glad you got it working though.