Soltek onboard LAN doesnt work!!

I own a Soltek 75FRN2-L nforce2 board and the LAN refuses to work after i have reformatted my computer and reinstalled windows xp. after using the driver CD that came with the board, windows detects the presence of the ethernet controller. When i try to release/renew my IP it claims that my media is disconnected (and its obviously not). It was working before the reformat. This is an issue with this board. I took it for granted, and now im paying

I was convinced that i was a lucky one when i first got it working.

any ideas on what went wrong?

heres a link
http://www.ncix.com/forums/index.ph...r=2&product_id=9013&forumid=101&pcbuilderid=0

try uninstallign the nforce drivers and go update it to the 2.45's. i have the same board but RL. they are practically identical besides that i have sata raid. if not you can always go to amdforums.com. they havea seperate forums for just soltekies like us