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Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet - ONBOARD Asus P6X58D P
Hey guys!
I'd like to thank you first for all the help with my other problems with this piece of crap computer. But now I want to solve, or at least find out why this problems occur.
So I have a Asus P6X58D Premium motherboard which I guess has a "Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet" product as their on board network card.
That's at least what the drivers says on their website and the information on the connection in the connections window in the control panel, thingy.
The problem is that both, because I have two of them on the backside, tend to f*ck up a lot. I don't want to be rude, but having had this problem for a year and searching like crazy on the internet during that time and found nothing, that's what I can express at the moment.
So they disconnect a lot. Usually when I boot my computer I have to fiddle with it. It says "no cable is connected" but it clearly is, so I just repair the connection and it works. By repair I deactivate and activate it again afterwards. Sometimes this won't work though. So I might have to switch the cable over to the other one, and if I'm lucky it will connect. There is a chance that it won't and that's when the annoying part comes. I have to sit under my desk for 10-15 minutes and unplug and replug the damn cable until I see some lights indicating that it is connecting.
Both connections are active during this process but I turn the idle one off after getting a connection. This I have to do almost each time after rebooting.
Sometimes the computer is happy and it doesn't happen, and if it doesn't happen it will not happen again until I disconnect the cable again. Like, if I have to move the computer or something. Then it all starts over.
What I've tried to fix this is:
Installed newest drivers
Drivers from CD
Different OS's, including Win XP and Win 7 32 bit and Win Vista both 32 & 64 bit. Current one is Win 7 64 bit
Googling for others with the same problem, but it's hard because it's so many people having different issues with this component on other boards, or externals, I don't know as I stop reading when I see it's not in my area.
Anything that could stop this I'm willing to try, as long as it doesn't cause any harm to somebody. I wouldn't do a voodoo ritual or something... hehe
Anyways, that's all the info I can give. Asus won't help me either, they don't believe me as it works fine for a couple of weeks after install (most of the time) and then the more you use the computer the more often it happens.