Win 7 64bit, no network or internet

This bullsh!t caught me today. I've been using W7-32bit for a year with 2GB of RAM and I finally caught another matching pair on sale so for $40 I upped my system to 4GB and figured I'd use my secondary drive to install W7-64 and take advantage of the full 4GB... but lo-and-behold I'm stuck dumbing my system down to 3GB in order for the onboard NIC to work.

It seeems BastiK1979 even had the same problems with an add-on card. Seems to be a pretty stupid problem. Anyone manage to resolve this?

Can yo tell me please how is the configuration on the motherboar´s bios

I can not install windows 7 64bit on my PC and i have the same motherboard
Asus p5nsli

regards!

argh said:

Hi, hopefully someone here can help me out with this problem, I've tried everything. I've scoured the web and tried everything people have suggested, nothing has worked. Thing is, I can't find anything concrete about whether or not this is a network card incompatibility issue as it seems some people have trouble, while others get online right off the bat without any problems.

I've got Windows 7 64 bit installed. I can't get on the network or the internet really. Bear with me as nothing has been 100% consistent in my troubleshooting.

Note that this is a wired machine I'm talking about, no wireless.

I've attached a screenshot of what I *typically* see. I'm saying typically because last night I was able to get to google.com briefly, but it took a good 10 minutes to load. Then internet was gone again.

The screenshot says I'm on the network, but I'm not really. My win 7 machine can't see my laptop and vice versa. The ping in the screenshot is a result of me trying to ping my router (192.168.0.1) from my win 7 box (192.168.0.10). Most of the packets don't make it at all, every now and then I get a REALLY slow response, and sometimes the ping actually says the response is coming from my win 7 box, not the router (note how some responses are from .0.1, while others are from .0.10). I'm not sure about this, but it also seems my successful responses are related to using ping -t, I *never* get anything but "timed out" using just ping.

I've got the win 7 box set up with a static IP, although I also tried doing it the dynamic way, made no difference at all.

I've tried every nic driver you can imagine. The card is the onboard nic on the Asus P5NSLI board - Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010. I don't know exactly which of those models is the exact one, but that's the driver I'm using under XP with no problems at all. I've tried the automatically detected drivers that come with win 7, as well as drivers for vista 64 and xp 64 installed in vista and xp mode. I've uninstalled drivers completely before installing different ones every time (with full shut downs between attempts). I'm currently running the windows 7 drivers directly from Marvell.

I've tried disabling and re-enabling devices on restart.

I've disabled IPv6, as well as the other 2 options that people in other threads suggest (sorry, I can't remember what they're called, I'm logged into XP right now to be able to type this up). I have it set to use IPv4.

I've even checked the registry and services to see if some services were running that were interfering. Found nothing.

No firewall or antivirus.

Also, the network and internet status indicator tends to bounce between no network/network, internet/no internet ... this obviously coincides with those times when my ping packets do in fact make it through to the router.

Anyone have any ideas? I know win 7 is in beta, but I'd really love to get this working if possible. Other than the networking issues, the OS is running beautifully. It's super fast, sound and video works without a problem, etc. It's literally just the nic issues that are getting in the way. I would think this is a driver issue, but I've tried literally every driver available for my card now.

Thanks in advance.

Hello Together,

I just want to inform you, I've solved my problem with the P5NSLI board and no network access with 4 GB RAM..! I gave it a last chance and removed the previous Intel Pro 1000 GT *PCI Card* and instead inserted an Intel Pro 1000 CT *PCI Express* Network Adapter and - I couldn't believe it - it works!!!!! Now, after so many frustrating attempts, I can use my 4 GB RAM...! Cool

HI! hey man, can you tell me how is set your motherboar's bios. i have the same motherboard and i can't install windows 7 64 bit and wndows 2008 server R2.

regards !

BastiK1979 said:

Hello Together,

I just want to inform you, I've solved my problem with the P5NSLI board and no network access with 4 GB RAM..! I gave it a last chance and removed the previous Intel Pro 1000 GT *PCI Card* and instead inserted an Intel Pro 1000 CT *PCI Express* Network Adapter and - I couldn't believe it - it works!!!!! Now, after so many frustrating attempts, I can use my 4 GB RAM...! Cool

Hello! Well, I can't remember having set special settings for Windows 7 in my BIOS... I've installed it with RAID disabled. My BIOS Version is 1801. What problems do you have? A Blue Screen?

grakonosh said:

HI! hey man, can you tell me how is set your motherboar's bios. i have the same motherboard and i can't install windows 7 64 bit and wndows 2008 server R2.

regards !

BastiK1979 said:

Hello Together,

I just want to inform you, I've solved my problem with the P5NSLI board and no network access with 4 GB RAM..! I gave it a last chance and removed the previous Intel Pro 1000 GT *PCI Card* and instead inserted an Intel Pro 1000 CT *PCI Express* Network Adapter and - I couldn't believe it - it works!!!!! Now, after so many frustrating attempts, I can use my 4 GB RAM...! Cool

Yes i have the blue screen of death. and i have found in another post that the motherboard is not compatible with windows 7.

maybe you can tell me how is set your motherboard now.

thanks and regards!

BastiK1979 said:

Hello! Well, I can't remember having set special settings for Windows 7 in my BIOS... I've installed it with RAID disabled. My BIOS Version is 1801. What problems do you have? A Blue Screen?

grakonosh said:

HI! hey man, can you tell me how is set your motherboar's bios. i have the same motherboard and i can't install windows 7 64 bit and wndows 2008 server R2.

regards !

BastiK1979 said:

Hello Together,

I just want to inform you, I've solved my problem with the P5NSLI board and no network access with 4 GB RAM..! I gave it a last chance and removed the previous Intel Pro 1000 GT *PCI Card* and instead inserted an Intel Pro 1000 CT *PCI Express* Network Adapter and - I couldn't believe it - it works!!!!! Now, after so many frustrating attempts, I can use my 4 GB RAM...! Cool

Well, officially it's only compatible with Windows Vista. But, since Windows 7 doesn't differ that much, it works...
In general, in most cases you get Blue Screens (0x7B - Inaccessible boot device) during Windows Installations when installing without appropriate (mass-storage) drivers to access your harddisk.
So I think it's most important for you to check how your SATA controller is configured to access the harddisks.
In my setup, I don't use RAID (which would require additional drivers for sure!) and therefore did disable it.

In short, I think you should check the following settings (be aware that changing the RAID configuration might cause existing data on your harddisk lost):
1) Advanced - NVRAID Configuration - RAID Enable - Disabled
2) Advanced - IDE Function Setup - <all Options> - Enabled
3) Advanced - USB Configuration - <all Options> - Enabled
I think that's it...

If you still have blue screens I would suggest checking your hardware - for example you can start a RAM check using the Windows 7 DVD.

Has any one tried adding more ram {8GB -16GB} after upgrading the Intel Pro 1000 CT *PCI Express* Network Adapter with Windows 7 64?