My setup is a R6E and an amd with a c100c in it. When I first got the R6E I didn't notice to many drops from websites and such but I did notice what I found out later to be a firmware problem with the soldered nic.

R6E windows driver updated from 2.2.2.0 to 6.1.3 just fine on the Driver. As near as I can tell they are outdated and don't really matter. The R6E firmware for the card is 1.5.58. 1.5.58 was drooping every time I start up the R6E mobo. The R6E has a problem with the lan controller. Ideally I need to get Firmware 3.1.121 on that card and get it functioning. I fixed the resetting by unticking allow the computer to turn off to save power.

The C100C would update to 2.2.2.0 on the driver. And it would not flash the firmware higher than 3.1.88. This is supposed to be 3.1.121a from the marvel website FW. I need to know how to flash this.

Even though I got the card to stop resetting on startup the card still isn't responding very well almost like the card is laggy on the upstream. When the card is doing this I notice an inherent lag in game. This is because the Firmware on the card has no update available from asus. It needs something higher than 1.5.58 to update to 3.1.121.

I am hoping what is going on with me is not isp related. I have been dealing with this for years with no resolution. I believe I even saw the posts before today but the fix is to complex and there was no way for me to deal with it.

I tried things with my C100C which is currently going through RMA thankfully they are sending me a fresh one. I had no idea that my firmware was out of date and that the firmware on the website for the c100c and the driver was 2.2.2.0 and that was out of date as far as the most stable is 2.2.3.0. When I had the c100c I knew about the marvel website but did no such thing with trying to flash marvells firmware onto this.

I have posted elsewhere on the forums. From what I can understand this was a problem with the AQN 107 cards (I don't know if the nic on the R6E board is a AQN 107). Namely a problem with updating that people have found a workaround for that I cannot seem to get to work. When asus started shipping these boards there was a problem with updating the drive and more importantly the firmware out in the wild. They literally stopped. There was an update on marvels site literally a month after they stopped supporting this product. The other key factor is they are installed like most old network cards. You install the windows software (driver) and you flash the network card. I cannot get the network card flashed on my R6E. That is the problem I don't know what to do for the second part for flashing the card. I also may not have the right patch for the windows driver part either (3.1.6 off the marvel site). There might be something more recent for the onboard 10g marvel.

My R6E is full on missing it's controller and instead of just complaining about that I visited the forum posts below and tried to run through the fixes. I can get the windows update to take (3.1.6 driver) but cannot get the firmware to flash on the marvel flash utility. That firmware is hard locked at 1.5.58 on the network card. I heard somewhere that you need to have version 2.0 or later to update further I have no idea how to do this.
I hope to get two things done.

1. Get the card on the R6E flashed with the new firmware (3.1.121a) and verify the changes on windows and the network card if possible. Finger's crossed also get the lan controller to work again. The R6E took the driver 3.1.6 fine.

2. When the c100c gets here I am going to need to ignore the asus website firmware and instal only what I need and hopefully it doesn't crash every time I boot up the pc. I need 3.1.121 on this when it gets here and 2.2.3.0 on the windows side or higher.

All in all I would love to be able to just upgrade but with money tight I would like to get this to work. At the very least if I can get a stable firmware on the C100C I would have a cheaper solution for the R6E. Provided I can get the Lan controller to work again.