UD3P V1.1 Lost It's 2nd Onboard LAN Port. Is this comon for this MoBo?

[2therock]

My UD3P lost its 2nd LAN port. In the BIOS will not see it in the line test so it is dead right? Is this common for this board?

Just making sure before I buy a PCIe NIC.

[Conners]

I never heard anyone saying anything about loosing land ports before. All I can say is that I have the same board as you for a little over 3 years and never had a problem.

[2therock]

Thanks,

I lost my 1st one after a power failure. The 2nd one tonight after a restart failed to show up. Tried everything.
Since the 1st one I have put all kind of surge and UPS devices in place from my breaker box to the desktop so its not that again.

I just ordered an Intel EXPI9301CTBLK Network Adapter 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI-Express card.

I must say even not overclocked this system does not make me want for anything. Still running very snappy.

[2therock]

Well, it came back. Heh! I tell ya I tried it all with no success.

So I ordered an NIC and decided to pull the box and give her a clean. Pull all the cards and paint brush dusted them and took the electric leaf blower and poofed her out (from a safe distance with my fan blades locked).
Put it back together and slapped an old D-Link card in there for temp. Then while looking in Device Manager there sat a realtek adapter in the list. Still only one though. I'm sure the surge got the other long ago.

So I will put the Intel card on the shelf as backup. Good thing I got it on a promo price eh?
Thing is I was in device manager to see why the D-Link would not work. The D-Link card would not see my cable connection. Maybe its bad. Sheesh.

[Bonka]

Some people have had success by reloading the optimized defaults/fail-safe defaults in the bios and/or updating the bios. Could purely be coincidental though.

[2therock]

Thanks, I did that when I lost the 1st Realtek.