Lan problems on P55-GD80

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PhiliusM

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Hi,

I'm on my second one of these motherboards and they both exhibit the same fault with the same workaround. On boot the primary LAN devices are not visible in the device manager under Vista, sometimes both LAN devices can vanish. I can get them back by shutting down and clearing the CMOS using the button on the board. I thought it was a Vista issue but if I boot a standalone backup environment, Linux based I think, that can't see the LAN devices either. I think the effect seems to be triggered by running any non windows environment, Acronis or Paragon backup seems to sometimes trigger it. However I have seen the devices just disappear when windows was running.

I did find an entry on a German website, from what I could understand there was a similar issue with a similar board and a BIOS upgrade fixed it.

I have logged a case with MSI, I'll let you know how I get on.
 
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Bios version is 1.4.

Can't find the website again will carry on looking and report back.

System is rock solid apart from this one issue. It's been running all day without a problem.
 
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Found the link:-

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://extreme.pcgameshardware.de/mainboards-und-arbeitsspeicher/73733-msi-p55-gd-65-lan-probleme.html&ei=MYv9SsoU1M2MB56YnZwL&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CA4Q7gEwAjge&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dlan%2B%252Bproblem%2BMSI%2BP55%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26tbo%3Dp%26start%3D30%26tbs%3Dqdr:m
 
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Well, the problem in that thread occurs on a different board model (P55-DG65) which uses different BIOS Releases than your board to begin with.

Also, the solution for the problem was not a BIOS Update but a simple CMOS Clear:

nach den stecken des clrcmos-steckers geht nun wieder alles
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The wording he used is confusing (not accurately put) but what he means is that he cleared CMOS, that is it. 

The LAN Problem occured after a BIOS Update, it was not solved by one in that case.
 
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MSI tech support suggest flashing the BIOS to version BIOS\7581\A7581IMS.169 from their ftp website. Unfortunately I can't find the file at that path. I have responded to  them and will update with their reply.
 
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