Is ethernet port on an acer laptop on motherboard or pc1?

martin57

Hi everybody,

I have a 4 year old acer laptop aspire 5601 and the ethernet port at back is faulty definitely a hardware fault as I have tried everything drivers etc.

My question, is the ethernet port actually on the motherboard or is a pc1 card?

Many thanks

martin57

Lokolo

Most likely the motherboard.

neilwoods

Considering it is a laptop then motherboard. Does it have pcmcia or could use Usb to Ethernet adapter

Donnie

You need one of these:

Sold out there though, so you may have to pay a bit more @ £10 for one, unless someone comes up with a link to a less expensive product.

martin57

Thanks for replies, and the suggestions, very helpful. the laptop does do a beep at end of post messages before windows begins to load. When the beep and message appear "about a resource conflict and press f1 to continue" I then press f1 and windows xp loads as normal. I have done all the troubleshooting when windows loads as it says it has discovered new hardware and ethernet port but is unable to install any drivers that I have got. It is definitely a harware problem in the ethernet port as it doesn't work. I have even used the recovery partition on laptop but problem is still there.

I wonder would the above card get rid of the beep and having to press f1?

thanks very much again,

martin57

totalsolutions

>I wonder would the above card get rid of the beep and having to press f1?

Nope you have a resource conflict and need to resolve that first. It will be there what ever you add. you need to take things off first. I suspect the drivers are incorrect, say for the sound card and preventing the rj45 from working.

closed

Have you tried resetting bios to defaults?

martin57

Thanks again for replies. Yes I have gone into the bios and reset everything but no good.

I would have thought that as regards a driver conflict that restoring the laptop to its factory settings using the recovery partition that should determine whether its a hardware fault in the ethernet port or not, but restoring the laptop does not help, still a problem in the ethernet.

Thats the main reason why I think its a hardware fault.

thanks again

martin57

5bellies_2

If it's beeping and warning prior to Windows loading, a driver conflict is not the issue.

Have you checked Acer for a BIOS update?

prowla

As a diagnostic, you could try one of the Linux "live" releases that run entirely from CD (it won't do anything to your hard disk or trash your windows unless you choose an install option).
If you can boot one of them and get network then you'll know it's not hardware.
There are downloadable Ubuntu or Fedora live releases that you can cut to a CD, or magazines regularly do them.

Donnie

prowla wrote: »

As a diagnostic, you could try one of the Linux "live" releases that run entirely from CD (it won't do anything to your hard disk or trash your windows unless you choose an install option).
If you can boot one of them and get network then you'll know it's not hardware.
There are downloadable Ubuntu or Fedora live releases that you can cut to a CD, or magazines regularly do them.

UBUNTU....