Working on a buddy's computer that is running Windows 7. I helped him put a motherboard in the thing about a year ago (Asus P5G41T-MLX Plus) and everything was working fine up until about a week ago. Said he was browsing using Chrome, and his website crashed. Tried resetting the router, modem, and PC to no avail. He brought it into work, and same symptoms there. I brought it home with me, and same symptoms, on a network that I know for a fact works just fine. So I've ruled out ISP issues. Also has the same symptoms in safe mode with networking. I was using command prompt, and pinged the LAN port, and it sends and receives just fine. Pinged the router, and they seem to be getting along which I thought was weird, because I don't show any networks in my network and sharing center. Pinged www.google.com, and it worked. So tried IE, and everything works great. But I don't show that I'm connected to any network??? I'm hard wired direct through my router, and the LAN port lights are functioning, but this has me scratching my head. I just don't understand how I access a network, without the PC even acknowledging that there is a network. Any help or feedback is appreciated.
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