Hi all. I recently bought an Intel i225-V based PCIe 2.0 x1 card and so far it works OK. I havent tested 2.5gbit as my new router is on its way still. If I run the hardware test from within the LAN toolkit app, all tests complete successfully, except the NVM test which just shows FAILED. The card is this one: https://www.amazon.de/Informatique-Controllerkarte-Ethernet-RJ45-Anschluss-Chipsatz/dp/B092ZZFHQ8/ Is there anything I can do to solve this issue? Firmware update tool says "up2date", version is shown as "1.54 (1.36)". Update with Gigabyte tool says current version is "136" (NOT 1.36! Really "136"!) and version in update is "1.45". Because 136 is higher than 1.45 no update is done. Should I return it or is it "normal"? The reason I ask this otherwise very obvious question is I read some pages on reddit and other forums describing a massive issue with Intel i225 chips on their mainboards, so probably my problem is related to that? Thank you for every hint. Edit: speedtests are OK, 960 down / 54 up and LAN throughput is on-par with what my i211 onboard chip delivers.
It shows an error at 225m length, regardless if a cable is plugged in or not. I return it and get another one from a different make / a differetn model. Thx.
Hmm, port is set to auto negotiate and sync'ed to 1gbit (new switch coming soon). Anyway I returned the item because of the NVM error and bought some cheap 20 bucks card with RTL8125 chipset. It will be enough until I can upgrade to 10gbit native. P.S.: Same cable and no errors at all ....
Reviving this thread, the reason gigabytes tool failed is because it didn't hard code the culture info to USA decimal seperators, so it read 1,36 as 136. User here fixed that up. https://forum.gigabyte.us/post/46336/thread - deadlink open nvmupdate.ps1 in notepad and add Code: $culture = [System.Globalization.CultureInfo]::GetCultureInfo('en-US') [System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = $culture [System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = $culture Under $TargetVer="1.68", but above Function Check_Admin {
