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More info?)
"Bob" <bob.lockie.NOSPAM@mail.com> wrote in message
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> On 04/09/04 02:44 sm spoke:
> > "Bob" <bob.lockie.NOSPAM@mail.com> wrote in message
> > news:Vspdc.11356$BF2.1106102@news20.bellglobal.com...
> >
> >>I want to disble the onboard ethernet and I flashed the latest BIOS but
> >>do not see an option to do so.
> >
> >
> > In the BIOS, click on Advanced tab, click on "I/O configuration" at the
> > bottom of Advanced page, on the next page, you will see Onboard Lan -
> > disable/enable, so choose disable. There is a few lines of Onboard items
> > there, onboard sound, etc. I disabled all of them because I use a
network
> > card of my own, and a soundblaster live. I never tried the onboard LAN
and
> > don't want to since I am quite happy with my network card, so no point
to
> > change.
> >
> >
> >>The reason I want to do this is that I put in a wireless card but the
> >>system freezes, the video compresses, or the card isn't recognized.
> >
> >
> > I don't know anything about wireless cards, so can't help you there.
> >
> >
> >>The system works fine without the card and I have heard stories about
> >>conflicting onboard ethernet adaptors.
> > you mean you have no LAN card?
>
> I have the built-in one and the wireless one.
> I think the wireless card was conflicting with the video card.
> I put a different video card in and it all works now.
Which one are you using right now to get on the internet? Are you using the
wireless one now that you got the video card and your network card fixed up?
> There is an option to disable the onboard sound but not the onboard LAN.
> Maybe something is screwy with my BIOS.
Are you sure? I can't see how they could be different unless you had a
different BIOS chip on your board than I have. I have the same motherboard
as you and no matter what network card you are using the choices and lines
in the BIOS would be the same. Just disable or enable might be different
according to your choices. I just looked in the BIOS in ADvanced, and click
Enter at the I/O configuration at the bottom of the screen in the middle
line of choices. In that screen near the bottom, there are 5 lines all to do
with onboard components.
They can all be disabled or enabled. I disabled all of them. They are:
Onboard modem controller
Onboard audio controller
Onboard LAN
Onboard game port
Onboard Midi I/O
Maybe someone else with Asus A7V8X-x can check their BIOS just to confirm
this. But thats what it says in mine.
Mary