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NF7-S 2.0 ethernet problem

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domeo

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I know my board and system are old, but I'd appreciate any help I can get. Here's the scenario:

On my PCI bus:
NETGEAR FA311
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz

The Problem:

The NETGEAR NIC and onboard ethernet controller both do not respond to physically connecting a working ethernet cable with service. The connection status still indicates unplugged. Neither of the LEDs (yellow for the NF7-S 2.0) light up.

History:

I pulled out the motherboard tray to reapply themal paste to the CPU heatsink, and clean everything of dust, but when I put everything back together, the problem started to occur.

In the BIOS, the LAN Adapter is Enabled.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling all NVIDIA drivers (5.10), the NETGEAR drivers, and the Windows system files (the repairing option from the boot CD), but still no recognition or LED light. The drivers install without problems or conflicts.

The Internet service and cable works because I've connected it to my laptop without problems.

Without recognizing the physical connection, ipconfig and the options do not work.

I've tried pinging the backdoor (127.0.0.1) but receive timeouts. (Did I forget something by just typing ping 127.0.0.1 without setting any other options?)
I've tried disabling the LAN Adapter in BIOS to see if the NETGEAR PCI NIC would activate. No results.

I've tried booting up in Safe Mode with Networking. No results.

I've tried booting up with a different hard drive (same Windows XP, though). Still no results.

If It's Dead:

What I don't get is: If my sound card on the PCI bus works, why wouldn't the NETGEAR PCI NIC work? Does the NF7-S 2.0 somehow detect what kind of data the PCI bus is passing, and if it's network data, it has to pass through the same route as the broken onboard LAN circuit?

Anyway, I checked when I bought the thing and it's been over a year. Should I send it in for repair? Dunno how much it'll cost though...

If repair isn't the way to go, could anyone recommend a mobo? (different processor is fine, since I'm thinking to upgrade that, too)

Thanks for any advice in advance.
 
The lan on that MB is kind of flakey. I had issues with it before of it not being detected when I would restart my PC. I'm not sure why a PCI NIC wouldn't work though. Have you tried to uninstall them from device manager? I had to do that a couple of times with my NF-7 to get the onboard lan and USB to be detected properly even after a fresh install ect. Could be something to do with drivers.
 
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