I've been having some weird issues with my computer lately, so yesterday I decided to just do a full wipe and clean reinstall. So I got a fresh Win10 image from Microsoft, and installed that. However, after I was done I couldn't connect to the internet, and the diagnostics app said that one or more network protocols were missing. So I googled that error and started trying solutions I found, however none of them worked for me.
In the end I decided that since this seems to be a common issue for Windows 10, even though it worked perfectly fine before, I'll just try downgrading to Windows 8.1. So I did that, however it still doesn't work. Now it's telling me that my Ethernet adapter doesn't have a valid IP configuration. Once again, I googled for at least an hour and tried several solutions, none of which fixed it.
I was about to downgrade once more to Win7, but before that I decided to boot a Linux Live CD I had lying around, and I don't have any connectivity with that either, yet I know this CD worked perfectly fine before.
So now it kinda looks like my ethernet controller just decided to kill itself in the time I reinstalled Windows for the first time. Which seems like a really weird coincidence, but I guess stranger things have happened. I'm just wondering if you guys can recommend any additional troubleshooting steps before I go out and buy a PCI Ethernet controller to plug into my box.
I'm running an ASUS P5Q Pro motherboard btw.
In the end I decided that since this seems to be a common issue for Windows 10, even though it worked perfectly fine before, I'll just try downgrading to Windows 8.1. So I did that, however it still doesn't work. Now it's telling me that my Ethernet adapter doesn't have a valid IP configuration. Once again, I googled for at least an hour and tried several solutions, none of which fixed it.
I was about to downgrade once more to Win7, but before that I decided to boot a Linux Live CD I had lying around, and I don't have any connectivity with that either, yet I know this CD worked perfectly fine before.
So now it kinda looks like my ethernet controller just decided to kill itself in the time I reinstalled Windows for the first time. Which seems like a really weird coincidence, but I guess stranger things have happened. I'm just wondering if you guys can recommend any additional troubleshooting steps before I go out and buy a PCI Ethernet controller to plug into my box.
I'm running an ASUS P5Q Pro motherboard btw.
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