ASUS Pro WS w790 SAGE - 10Gbe LAN port Problems

Hi All,

First post, long time lurker…

I have a load of w790 boards for work, and they are mostly reasonably stable.

The issue I’m having is the 2 10Gbe ports dont seem to come to life unless they are plugged in before the PSU is plugged in.

If you unplug, power off, plug in, and then power on they seem to be ok.

I dont think this is a windows driver issue, and the 1Gbe Managment port behaves properly. I have updated to the latest BIOS but nothing seems to help.

Once you do this process, you can plug and unplug them, however after some time this process needs to be re done.

When you plug in, you get a random blink fomr the green LED from time to time, no consistent pattern.

Dont get this with any of the X299 Sage Mobos with 10G

Have tried setting the port negotiation on the switch to 1Gb and have tried on multiple switches…

Any ideas?

I don’t have any issues with the 10GBe NICs. Have you tried a different switch and updating the firmware for the NICs?

X710 10G LAN FW update tool [1]
Version 9.4
5.64 MB
2024/04/16
Improving Ethernet stability

[1] Pro WS W790E-SAGE SE | Motherboards | ASUS UK