EX58-UD4 onboard lan doesn't work anymore

[appius]

HI
My lan suddenly stopped working on my EX58-UD4, it couldn't renew the IP anymore.
 I ve tried several things to fix it, including driver update, recovering a primary windows configuration using a ghost image etc...
the only thing that work is disabling the onboard card and using a old PCI card !
how to better repair it?
thx for your help...

[Badbonji]

What OS are you using?
With vista and windows 7, their own ethernet "updates" found for my LAN/ethernet ended up stopping those ports working, happened to me on my EVGA 780i and a gigabyte X58 so I think it is a driver issue, have you tried removing the ports from device manager and rebooting to see if it works again?

[oggmonster]

Have you tried updating to latest BIOS? You could try running winsockfix http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html only works in XP/2000 though.

[FluX]

Could it be a Firewall issue?

To test you could try using a Live CD of some sort (eg Ubuntu)? Download and burn the ISO image to CD.

Boot from the CD, it sets up a ram drive with all drivers loaded up for the network, you should be able to connect to the internet with the browser provided.

If you don't like linux, you can download Bart PE. It uses the files from an original XP installation disc to create a Live CD. Again, boot from the BartPE CD created, open a dos window and run the ping command to your router...

Boot CD, accepting the the defaults to the dialog boxes
Go>Command prompt (CMD)
at the dos window prompt type...
ping 192.168.0.1 -n500     
(192.168.0.1 being the address of your router)

If you are unable to do this then its possibly an O/S independant problem, and you may have a hardware failure