I just discovered that I was wrong.  Each of our computers now has new MAC addresses, which are the same on all four network 
controllers except that my two end with a 03 and 04 and her two end with a 03 and a 04, so we should be able to have unique MAC 
addresses - at least as far as our lan is concerned.  One of us will be an 03 and the other will be an 04.  :)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean Kukral" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 12:59 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] MAC address corrupted?


My wife and I both have ASUS Striker II Formula motherboards - which I do NOT recommend to anybody.

They have been buggy from the start, so when a new BIOS (drivers, too) came out, I was eager to load the BIOS and drivers.

Now, however, I find that I have the same MAC address on my motherboard's network controller (I only checked one) and on both my
wife's network controllers.

Does this make sense to anyone?

So, I loaded the old BIOS to my computer, but I still have the same MAC address on the network controller!!!

Could this cause networking conflicts?  Both computers seem to be assigned different DHCP sets.  However, my wife's computer has
downloaded multiple copies of emails.

Could this be malware related ( I mean malware other than ASUS's BIOS!! )?

Do you suppose that a simple network card will solve this problem for us?  I suppose that the actual MAC addresses are irrelevant,
since the unique DHCP addresses are what is important?

(I wonder if people all over the world that used these new BIOS are now saddled with the same MAC address.)

Could the nForce drivers for the 780i chip be causing this, so that going to the old drivers would help?  (I will probably try
that.)

As you can see, I am a bit stymied by all this.

Dean Kukral

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