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Torka
Jan 5, 2008

The onboard gigabit LAN on my Asus desktop motherboard has a bogus MAC address in Windows 7 of 88:88:88:88:87:88. Other devices on the network also see that address for that computer so it's not just a display problem.

It's been like this for a long time and I've never cared because it works anyway, but lately I've been trying to get WOL to work without success and I suspect this bullshit MAC is the reason.

What could cause this and what can I do to correct it? The advanced settings for the device in device manager allow you to set the MAC address but the option has no effect. I've tried updating drivers too, naturally.

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Torka
Jan 5, 2008

Nice, that MSI board has the same NIC chip so that must be it! Thanks a lot dude.

e: worked brilliantly, I have now a proper mac address and working WOL :) thanks again

Torka fucked around with this message at 11:12 on Jan 7, 2015

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