motherboard without LAN

T180985 · 19 Jan 2006 at 17:10

basically i need to find a motherboard WITHOUT a lan port cant seem to find one anywhere. it needs to be new aswell. obviously i cna get links to other sites so if you could just give me the model number that would be handy. thanx

noxidjkram@hotm · 19 Jan 2006 at 20:09

You could buy one with, and disable it in BIOS? Same effect.

I haven't seen any modern boards without LAN ports.

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ns400r · 20 Jan 2006 at 01:19

The plain Abit IC7 doesn't have LAN. It does, however, still have the connector on the back but lacks any onboard chips to feed it.

a1ex2001 · 20 Jan 2006 at 10:41

Any reason for not having LAN? Just curious!

J1234 · 22 Jan 2006 at 17:09

noxidjkram@hotm said:
You could buy one with, and disable it in BIOS? Same effect.

I haven't seen any modern boards without LAN ports.

M

That would be the best thing to do, or possibly physically removing it..

twiceborn · 22 Jan 2006 at 22:32

a1ex2001 said:
Any reason for not having LAN? Just curious!

Me too! Very curious...

DannyW · 22 Jan 2006 at 22:49

lol me too. Ive been using onboard lan for years, never had any problems

split · 23 Jan 2006 at 12:45

I think onboard LAN is a huge benefit, and they seem to have got that so much better than onboard sound.
I can remember paying over £30 for a 3com PCI one, yet the last 2 mobos I have bought have had 2 onboard LANs.

Talk about price drop.

Just wondering what 3com make these days that is such a good money spinner.

a1ex2001 · 23 Jan 2006 at 14:16

3com now make on board Network cards for expensive desktops and server boards saving them the hassle of even putting the chips on a card and boxing them up!

I used to make a few quid at uni out of installing and configuring Network cars for people in halls to access the internet. I brought a big box of IBM NIC's off ebay for next to nothing and flogged them on at a tidy profit plus a little bit for the install and config! No more of that with these damn built in dual gigbit Lan jobs!

split · 23 Jan 2006 at 15:16

3com now make on board Network cards for expensive desktops and server boards saving them the hassle of even putting the chips on a card and boxing them up!

I have a 3com one (onboard) on my ASUS A7N8X deluxe.
I think it was the board I had before that I paid over £30 for a PCI one

I have about 3 in a box somewhere (PCI ones) and they are gradually getting smaller in size as the bought new ones out.

I do remember people having probs with the cheaper Realtek ones tho.
One of those stopped my mates old ASUS A7M266 from booting!