Maximus VII LAN not working-ish

baggedfeet

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I have a Maximus VII Formula. I just got this in the mail from newegg yesterday, I bought it as an "open box".
I already had a complete pc built, I'm just swapping the mobo and upgrading parts here and there.
Old setup:
Z87-A
i5 4670k
12gb RAM
2x 250GB Samsung SSDs
GTX 770
H100i

All I did was swap out the mobo with the Maximus VII.

I did a clean install of windows 7, installed all the drivers with the installation disk and now the onboard LAN is causing a problem.

I have a steady orange light on with a blinking yellow light (on the backside of computer where you plug in Ethernet cord).
I was running speed tests at 80mbps before swapping mobos. Now I've been hitting sometimes 10-15mbps but most of the time (if I can even make it to that page) 0.6mbps.
I've updated the mobo, updated the driver, uninstalled the driver, installed newest from usb.
I've plugged my Ethernet cable in my laptop and get about 36mbps.
I've been on the phone with Verizon, everything is good on their end, but they are still going to send out a tech Saturday to check out the router.
I've called asus and talked to some guy for a while trying to figure it out and got disconnected and called back only to be told that I don't know what I'm talking about.
I'll try calling them again tomorrow, I'm tired of talking to customer service, I've been on the phone between asus and Verizon for a little over five hours.

I know it's a long shot, but without telling me to get an Ethernet card, is there anyway to fix this?
 
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Well the Board has some problems..... in addition tot he LAN / WiFi issue, many have experienced the BIOS Clock Freeze bug .... having spent 6 weeks building my M6F Formula, if ya gonna RMA it, you'll wanna do it before adding all the water stuff.

If ya need a parts list for the build or any suggestions let me know.... Recommendations

CPU - EK Supremacy is the top WB

GPU - Again EK WB

Radiators - Use the radiator sizing tools here:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1457426/radiator-size-estimator

Alphacool rads are the most flexible, great performance, most ports, screw protectors but they need to be cleaned thoroughly with Mahems Blitz Kit.

Pump - D5 or 35x


it may be the intel ethernet software package that was installed. on my asus sabertooth that has another intel based ethernet chipset i got very slow speeds do to intel ethernet software package that was installed. it a known issue online. to check to see if it the software package reboot into safe mode if the speed picks up it the software package. look under intel add/remove and remove the extra fluff then do a custom reinstall and just install the driver and not the software package for intel ethernet.
 

baggedfeet

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I tried what you said to do, smorizio, but it didn't work :/
JackNaylorPE, I didn't install WiFi the first time. and I only installed it afterwards to see if it was running at speed with WiFi connected. I did disable it again just in case it works after having Verizon go through their trouble shooting. It is still unable to work.

I bought an Ethernet Network card and I'm back at my 86mbps download and 85mbps upload, so at this point, I can't blame Verizon.

Being that the onboard LAN doesn't work, will that eventually cause problems down the road? I'll be overclocking with a custom water loop. I just want to make sure I won't have a problem when I'm overclocking.
 
Well the Board has some problems..... in addition tot he LAN / WiFi issue, many have experienced the BIOS Clock Freeze bug .... having spent 6 weeks building my M6F Formula, if ya gonna RMA it, you'll wanna do it before adding all the water stuff.

If ya need a parts list for the build or any suggestions let me know.... Recommendations

CPU - EK Supremacy is the top WB

GPU - Again EK WB

Radiators - Use the radiator sizing tools here:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1457426/radiator-size-estimator

Alphacool rads are the most flexible, great performance, most ports, screw protectors but they need to be cleaned thoroughly with Mahems Blitz Kit.

Pump - D5 or 35x


 
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