Hi all,
So my computer has stopped recognizing the ethernet cable. Prior to this I opened up the tower to remount my video card since I had lost my visuals on my screen, it happens from time to time. So I shut down, remounted it and started my computer back up. And lo and behold the computer no longer recognizes that it is connected to the internet through it's ethernet cable. I have never had an issue with my connection before.
I checked in the BIOS and it recognizes that the port is enabled and that it is connected with the correct network speed. I looked into device manager and it is not disabled there, no error popups. I then took my install CD and tried to remove and reinstall the drivers and then restart to see if it would have any effect. Unfortunately nothing has changed. I then thought to do a system restore point and see if that would have any effect, but there are no restore points older than an hour available. Apparently my computer decided to create one for installing and reinstalling the drivers for the LAN adapter, and overwrote/deleted any older ones.
The BIOS still recognizes it, but on the desktop itself under networks, it shows that no connections are available. There is no problem with the cable, I have tried two different ones in my laptop and in my desktop. Both work fine with my laptop and for my roommates.
It is a self build, the Motherboard is an Asrock Z75 Pro running with windows 7. I also don't have a wireless card in it so updating the drivers to current rather than install drivers will be a bit tricky.
If any of you have any idea of something I may have missed/should do, let me know.
So my computer has stopped recognizing the ethernet cable. Prior to this I opened up the tower to remount my video card since I had lost my visuals on my screen, it happens from time to time. So I shut down, remounted it and started my computer back up. And lo and behold the computer no longer recognizes that it is connected to the internet through it's ethernet cable. I have never had an issue with my connection before.
I checked in the BIOS and it recognizes that the port is enabled and that it is connected with the correct network speed. I looked into device manager and it is not disabled there, no error popups. I then took my install CD and tried to remove and reinstall the drivers and then restart to see if it would have any effect. Unfortunately nothing has changed. I then thought to do a system restore point and see if that would have any effect, but there are no restore points older than an hour available. Apparently my computer decided to create one for installing and reinstalling the drivers for the LAN adapter, and overwrote/deleted any older ones.
The BIOS still recognizes it, but on the desktop itself under networks, it shows that no connections are available. There is no problem with the cable, I have tried two different ones in my laptop and in my desktop. Both work fine with my laptop and for my roommates.
It is a self build, the Motherboard is an Asrock Z75 Pro running with windows 7. I also don't have a wireless card in it so updating the drivers to current rather than install drivers will be a bit tricky.
If any of you have any idea of something I may have missed/should do, let me know.
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