DFI Lanpart NICs quit with SATA

Onyx · 02-04-2007, 11:22 AM

My friend ordered some computer parts for Christmas, I put them together... DFI Lanparty something or the other, forgot actual name. AMD Athlon 64 3800+, and a 512 stick of no-name RAM.

Everything worked great, he threw in an old IDE HDD he had, and used that until he got paid again and bought a SATA drive. After hell to get Windows installed on that, we got it booted up and both the onboard NICs weren't found. I threw in a PCI NIC and nothing there either. I read somewhere that the SATA conflicts with them, but I did everything that said and still no luck.

If anybody has any suggestions at all, it would be greatly appreciated... sorry if I was not clear enough, this is confusing me and aggravating me a lot.

Onyx · 02-05-2007, 03:33 PM

Alright, well, after all night of jacking around with it. Fixed it, disabled ports 3/4, uninstalled the NICs, got the Marvel port's drivers from DFI website, reinstalled drivers, one port works. The other one still doesn't work but one's better than none I suppose.

02-04-2007, 11:22 AM	#1 (permalink)
Onyx Registered User Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: USA Posts: 17 OS: WinXP Pro. Corp. SP2 EUE v3.0 My System	DFI Lanpart NICs quit with SATA My friend ordered some computer parts for Christmas, I put them together... DFI Lanparty something or the other, forgot actual name. AMD Athlon 64 3800+, and a 512 stick of no-name RAM. Everything worked great, he threw in an old IDE HDD he had, and used that until he got paid again and bought a SATA drive. After hell to get Windows installed on that, we got it booted up and both the onboard NICs weren't found. I threw in a PCI NIC and nothing there either. I read somewhere that the SATA conflicts with them, but I did everything that said and still no luck. If anybody has any suggestions at all, it would be greatly appreciated... sorry if I was not clear enough, this is confusing me and aggravating me a lot.

02-05-2007, 03:33 PM	#2 (permalink)
Onyx Registered User Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: USA Posts: 17 OS: WinXP Pro. Corp. SP2 EUE v3.0 My System	Resolved Alright, well, after all night of jacking around with it. Fixed it, disabled ports 3/4, uninstalled the NICs, got the Marvel port's drivers from DFI website, reinstalled drivers, one port works. The other one still doesn't work but one's better than none I suppose.