A7N8X Deluxe - How to manually set MAC address?

[J3anyus]

Hey everyone. I have a machine with an A7N8X Deluxe PCB Rev. 2.0 motherboard (the one with two 10/100 NICs, an nVidia and a 3Com one), and I'm wondering if there's a way for me to manually set the MAC address on either one or both of the NICs. I looked through my BIOS and didn't see any options anywhere for it. I'm thinking that possibly a newer version of the BIOS would have this option somewhere (I have BIOS version 1006, and the newest is 1007), but I don't want to flash my BIOS unless I know that it will enable this feature for me.

Is it possible to manually set the MAC address on one or both of these NICs, and if so, how?

Thanks for any help

- Jake

 

[mechBgon]

I have the 1007 BIOS on my rev. 2 A7N8X Deluxe at work, I'll check tomorrow if no one else answers this sooner.

 

[pspada]

Well, since a mac address needs to be unique and on these types of devices is ususally in the hardware itself, I'm not sure it is possible. Often they can be spoofed by hardware or software firewalls to provide a specific mac address to a broadband provider, if that's the issue.

 

[J3anyus]

I did a bit more Google searching and found a way to spoof MAC addresses by editing the Windows registry, so I was able to do what I needed to. Thanks for the help though. If you're interested in what I found, it's located here, and I have confirmed that it works:

http://www.klcconsulting.net/Change_MAC_w2k.htm

 

[rancherlee]

I Know you can on a DFI Lanparty board, not sure about the ASUS though.