Asus F3SA XP Ethernet driver.. please?!?

Hello--

I'm trying to get XP going on this Asus F3Sa-A1, and I've got everything running stably (thanks to several threads around here), except for the wired NIC. I'm pretty sure it's an Attansic/Atheros L1 Gigabit PCI-E, but every driver I've tried causes the system to lag/hang as soon as the driver's loaded (during install).

I've tried the XP driver from the F3 Vista drivers CD, from an F3Ka disk, and from links in several threads going around. Every one (that matches the card and installs) causes the system to hang and eventually a MACHINE_CHECK something-or-error blue screen to come up.

The most frustrating part is that the LAN driver was working when the HD was in Compatible mode (before I integrated the SATA driver into the XP install disk so I could run in Enhanced). Logically, that seems like the problem, but that makes no sense whatsoever to me.

Any thoughts on this? Help? Please??

Thanks

PS.- I'm running on an out-of-the-box hardware setup, no additional RAM or anything.

 

try the driver for the F3Sc from the asus support site:

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

 

Thanks for the reply, but the same thing happened.

I tried installing thru setup and directly thru Device Manager. As soon as it gets to loading the driver, the mouse stutters around the screen (I keep moving the mouse to see where it locks), then the whole system laaaaaags for several minutes with intermittent flashes of the hd light. Eventually the system goes to the blue screen and restarts.

The only thing I can do then is force the power down, boot into safe mode and rollback to the last restore point.

 

So you tried the ones on ASUS's site? For the F3S A, not F3SC?

 

FALSE ALARM!

After about 15hrs of frustration over this one driver (partly because Asus' site is incredibly slow), I decided to try something -- I ran the recovery CD to restore the original partitions and Vista..........

And it locked up!!! After everything was restored and the system restarted, I got the same stuttering mouse movement and no hd activity. So that tells me the NIC is likely defective, but best of all it tells me that I'm not completely incompetent! As far as I know...or care to think about it.

Anyway, that's what I'm going with. Thanks for the replies though. I think I'll exchange this for a machine that actually comes with XP.

 

ASUS doesnt support XP on the F3Sa

but its good to hear you (kind of) got the problem fixed

 

Good evening, people! I'm from Russia and my English is not so perfect as you see, and where are you from?) I also have f3sa and was looking for web-camera drivers and randomly moved to this forum. I had the same bug. Here are my advices:
First insert the CD(containing drivers) which was with note-book and let note-book check nesessary drivers itself(during automatically instalation). If the mashine starts instalation, don't forget to remove data cabel from LAN. Then everything must be allrigt, but if not, reboot in safe mode and unistall all the LAN drivers(including notes in system reestr, it should be executed by a special programm offcause). Then go there:
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=2007110509221…p;SLanguage=en-us
or there:
http://www.notebookdriverdownload.com/Program/95/Asus_F3sa_lan_-_ethernet_driver.html
Downloud drivers from this recourses and try to install them. After every unsuccesfull instalation do full unistalation. I tried a lot of drivers and soon finded the right one. F3SA is capable to work under XP, this is because compatible mode of HD exists.

 

I just fixed my Asus F3Sr notebook by updating to the latest bios v209. I wasted more than 10 hours checking the internet for solutions and finally got this fixed. Forgot to say that I just re-install it with XPand found this problem. Before that on Vista and Linux are both working all right. I think that is IRQ or hardware conflict which XP do not know how to deal with it