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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: Graceman on August 30, 2010, 03:12:49 pm

Title: On Board H/W Lan in Bios?
Post by: Graceman on August 30, 2010, 03:12:49 pm

I cannot find any definitive information on this and was thinking of disabling it what does it do?

Title: Re: On Board H/W Lan in Bios?
Post by: absic on August 30, 2010, 03:16:26 pm

Hi there,

The on-board LAN is the hardware that you would use if you want to create a Local Area Network and in a lot of cases too connect to the internet. If you use a USB modem to connect to the internet you probably don't use this but I wouldn't disable it.

Title: Re: On Board H/W Lan in Bios?
Post by: Dark Mantis on August 30, 2010, 03:19:14 pm

You don't say what motherboard you have but don't forget that on many of them there are two LAN ports to disable.

Title: Re: On Board H/W Lan in Bios?
Post by: absic on August 30, 2010, 03:20:34 pm

My board only has one.  :'(  I've been robbed!!! :P

Title: Re: On Board H/W Lan in Bios?
Post by: Graceman on August 30, 2010, 03:37:52 pm

Well I quickly found out by disabling it You get no network Lan function
I did think it was for the period up to the OS operating but the OS Windows xp pro needs this on. Despitethe network driver in Windows.

So they must need the basic network on board Lan to operate.

Title: Re: On Board H/W Lan in Bios?
Post by: Dark Mantis on August 30, 2010, 03:54:34 pm

Quote from: absic115 on August 30, 2010, 03:20:34 pm

My board only has one.  :'(  I've been robbed!!! :P

Well what do you expect from an AMD platform  :P

Quote from: Graceman on August 30, 2010, 03:37:52 pm

Well I quickly found out by disabling it You get no network Lan function
I did think it was for the period up to the OS operating but the OS Windows xp pro needs this on. Despitethe network driver in Windows.

So they must need the basic network on board Lan to operate.

The LAN must be found and configured in the BIOS otherwise it won't be there for Windows to utilise.

Title: Re: On Board H/W Lan in Bios?
Post by: absic on August 30, 2010, 04:14:34 pm

Quote from: Dark Mantis on August 30, 2010, 03:54:34 pm

Well what do you expect from an AMD platform  :P

It's not the AMD platform....... it's poverty!!!! :'(

Title: Re: On Board H/W Lan in Bios?
Post by: Dark Mantis on August 30, 2010, 05:09:34 pm

Oh! That's different can we share the crying into the beer then?

Title: Re: On Board H/W Lan in Bios?
Post by: absic on August 30, 2010, 05:19:43 pm

I can't afford beer!  :'( :'( :'(

Title: Re: On Board H/W Lan in Bios?
Post by: Dark Mantis on August 30, 2010, 06:07:27 pm

You can make your own. Much cheaper and better or we hit the Saki. ;)