ASUS P8B75-M/CSM motherboard IP Configuration problem

[Benedict_Arnold]

Using this with an I5 CPU as my media PC. Just upgraded to Windows 10.

Now I'm getting an IP configuration error which I can't figure out how to get rid of and the thing won't connect to the internerd to help solve the problem.

The PC is connected to an ethernet switch, then through the walls to a second, main ethernet switch and then to the cable internet modem and then to the outside world. I suppose I could go through and reset all the switches but I'm not sure that that would cure the problem.

Thoughts anyone?

 

[The_Lhc]

I'm not sure why you think this is a motherboard issue? You'll have to look in the network settings to see what's not configured correctly, normally you'd just enable dhcp and leave it at that bit that of course assumes you have something on your local network acting as a dhcp server.

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

I think it's a motherboard issue, could be a software issue, could be birds sitting on the wire for all I know....

All there is netween the computer and the outside world are a couple of Netgear Prosafe ethernet switches and an Motorola Arris Surfboard SB6141 cable modem. The other PCs in the house don't have an issue.

Suggestions?

 

[michael hoy]

Are you presuming the on board ethernet adapter is the motherboard in this issue.

Have you checked that the adapter is enabled and if so what IP address if any is it picking up.

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

Are you presuming the on board ethernet adapter is the motherboard in this issue.

Have you checked that the adapter is enabled and if so what IP address if any is it picking up.

I'm pretty sure the adaptor is enabled (I've tried disabling it and re-enabling it to clear the problem to no avail). The IP address I'm not sure about. I'll have to go home and look. That could be the problem, but I don't know how to clear it in Windows 10.

 

[abacus]

Shut down the computer and disconnect from the mains for 30s, then power it back up to see if the problem is solved. (Also make sure the network cable is pushed fully in and the adjacent lights are lit)

Setup of the network adaptor is the same as on previous versions of Windows.

Hope this helps

Bill

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

Last night I switched my attention to the network cables after discovering the Smart TV wasn't getting through to the internerd either. I checked a load of wire terminations but only managed to disable the rest of the network as well!

I think it may have a lot to do with the sequence in which I've got the boxes arranged inside the house, after the cable modem, so tonight I'm going to double check all the plug wires are in the correct sequence (green+white, green, orange+white, blue, blue+white, orange, brown+white, brown). I can still recite Hugh, Pugh, Barney, McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub by the way...

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

Got this solved, finally, yesterday. Took a day off work on a sickie to do it when everyone else was out of the house and I could work on it without one of the "little darlings" ding a "oh I just tird logging in quickly to do my homework..." and b*ggerinng things up again.

The trick is to fit your wireless modem / router between your cable modem and the switch. The wireless router assigns IP addresses to all the boxes in your house. I have a 16-port switch next to the modem, plus four more 8-port switches in individual rooms, so you can guess how many things are hooked up to the internet in our house.

That and to buy one of those ethernet testers from Home Depot (B&Q in the UK) that has two parts - a dumb return for one end and an active tester with LEDs at the other - to check for cable faults and mis-wires. With me being red-green colour blind....

If you put the router downstream of the switch it b*ggers everything else up.

We've eschewed cable or satellite TV due to the prices (nearly $300 a month for all the channels and all the set-top boxes we would need) in favour of just using the internet, Netflix and Roku. Working on getting HBO and maybe Starz (?) over the internet as well, avoiding buying any kind of cable TV service to do so. In the mean time, Game of Thrones on Bluray will do just fine, even if I am currently a season behind. On the same note, we use Vonage for our phones and I expect we'll go VOIP in due course there.

Now we have internet TV in four, working on six, rooms, wired internet, a home computer network, a media PC in the movie room, wifi (via a separate wireless access point), the receivers, TVs and Blurays are all hooked up to the internerd as well.

And er indoors and the cherubs are going to San Antonio for her neices birthday party on Saturday so I'll be having a GoT marathon. Bliss.