
Or is there a way to keep the link from going to 10Mbps when it goes to sleep mode? Cant the board maintain the link at say Gigabit even when its sleeping? Something is not right here on why it keeps doing this. What can we do to analyze this? Can I put some kind of logging on this? Then you can plug it back in and turn it on and it negoiates properly to gigabit. You have to leave it disconnected until the network light stops blinking or goes away. Like I said before power plug has to come out or in my case flip the power switch on the back of the power supply itself which truly kills power to the Motherboard. Only way to get it to come back is by completely shutting down, not just shutdown the computer. I have 0061 Bios and latest 16.8.1 Intel network driver.Įverytime I now sleep the computer, and then wake it, can be waking it say in 1min or even 10hrs, the link always drops to 10Mbps now. Well Im the original author of this thread and I have to reopen this issue. But most of the time when its put to sleep it will go into 10Mbps mode and refuse to come out. But its not reproducable all the time lately.
#Intel amt drivers stuck update
I think I mentioned previously that I went to 0055 Bios update and thought that was the cause, then backed it down to 0054 and still reproduced it. Im just slightly at a loss on why when this happens it gets in this stuck mode where like I said only way to "reset" it is to basically unplug power from the board by disconnect power plug, simply turning it off dont work as power is still going to the board. Ive tried as I mentioned multiple different cables so I know its not the cables since the same cables work on a Lenovo T420 laptop (gigabit capable), Gigabyte X58 based motherboard desktop (with intel gigabit lan). Then Ive tried directly plugging it into a Wireless Router which is the Linksys E3000 (Its a gigabit capable 4port wireless hub/router) The switch Ive tried two different types, one was a standard 8port gigabit hub/switch by TrendNet. So I thought that might explain why the NIC is still powered and linked to the network hub even though the machine is completely off (but still plugged in).Īgain only way to solve this is to kill power on the board for at least 10secs, then power it up. I did forget to mention that I use and configured IntelAMT. So clearly this is a hardware or bios issue where for some reason it just drops the link speed and gets stuck in that state. Turn off the computer now, and the hub port light still shows its in 10mpbs mode. If I wake the computer (either by WOL or Manually via power button) it will resume from standby and be in Windows, however its now stuck in 10mpbs mode only. Then when the computer is put to standby mode, I can see that the link (just by looking at the Hub port light) changes color which means it just dropped from Gigabit to 10mpbs. When it boots and starts on gigabit fine, its all great. Reverting to 0054 bios didnt help at all either. To further provide detail and more testing. What causes this to get in such a stuck state that only killing power to the board fixes this? Ive updated from the 0054 bios to 0055 last week so Im also on the latest Bios revision.

Im normally connected via the IntelAMT via RealVNC. It disconnects the Link and Reconnects but only sits at 10Mbps.
#Intel amt drivers stuck full
Even going into Device Manager and setting it to 100Mbps, or 1000Mbps, Half or Full duplex does nothing. Theres no explanation on how many times it takes before it decides to go into some stuck state of only negoiating at 10Mbps. Most of the time it sleeps fine, wakes up fine and still sits at Gigabit. Now to explain when it happens, I do have the machine set to sleep and wake at certain times. So the fact that killing power to the board fixes it, tells me its some hardware or firmware level issue, clearly not the driver. Other way is to change a setting in Bios which when you exit/save it causes it to kill power to the board for a second. Then upon starting up, its set to gigabit with no issues. I need to kill power from the board entirely. I have to unplug power, not just shut it down. ONLY way I can get this working is one of two ways. I have the latest 16.5 running on the Windows. So at this point dont believe its driver.
#Intel amt drivers stuck Pc
Shut the PC down, wait 1min, turn it on, still sitting at 10Mbps. Ive rebooted it, still negoiates at 10Mbps. Plugged it into a different hub, still dont work, still keeps sitting at 10Mbps. However still plugged into a different port of the hub, still dont work. I can plug that same cable into another machine like my Lenovo T420 laptop, and it has no issues connecting gigabit, so I know its not the cable, or port, or Hub. I can disconnect the cable, reconnect it, dont work. Ive got this problem where randomly it drops from Gigabit to 10Mbps and will never negoiate back to gigabit. Ive got the machine running Windows7 64bit. Ive got the Intel DQ67EP board with the Intel 82579LM onboard NIC.
