UD4P MB LAN Issue with 64-bit Windows 7

Just finished building a new rig today and I am trying to get everything setup. Installed every driver and got the bios set and everything checks out but for the life of me, I can't get the on-board LAN adapter to work.

I noticed that the drivers that come with the motherboard are for Vista and have been searching for Windows 7 compatible ones for a while now to no avail. I have tried just about every one on realtek's website and Gigabyte's doesn't even offer a LAN driver under Windows 7, only audio.

Sorry if this has been posted before, I am on a little netbook I use for school now and didn't find the search feature anywhere.

Anyway, doesn't anyone have a fix on the 64-bit Windows 7 LAN drivers for the UD4P Mobo?

My rig is:
i7 920
6 gig ddr3 dominators
Gigabyte UD4P
SLI GTX 285
300 gig velociraptor
Corsair TX850 PSU
SB X-FI Titanium

Thanks for the help in advance.

Odd that you're having problems. I put together almost the exact same system last week (except a GTX 275...I'm salivating for the 285 now that I think about it!), and I'm having ZERO problems with Windows 7 64-bit.

I downloaded the drivers from the installation disk.

I also flashed my bios? Have you done so, yet? You'll want to get the latest version from Gigabyte's website. I noticed people on Newegg said this helped them w/ your problem.

Worst case scenario buy one of those Killer network cards.

I rooted around in my update history - Win7 will install working drivers at installation, and then, first update, will put in:
Realtek - Network - Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0)

Installation date: ‎5/‎9/‎2009 3:40 AM

Installation status: Successful

Update type: Optional

DriverUpdate: Realtek Network software update released in June, 2007

More information:
http://winqual.microsoft.com/suppo [...] d=20067297

Seems to have none of the QOS problems evident in Vista or early win7 releases - probably improvements in the NDIS implementation, not the drivers...

Acckk! I dunno what to tell everyone - I just installed it to a clean partition, sat back, and watched it run. First or second update, it did its thing, worked perfectly ever since! I'll tell 'ya what - I'll try to break it. Have a pair of f'ware upgrades to my router (one factory, one DD-WRT; I keep alternating to try to get everything right - so far - impossible), each time seems to lead to a batch of fiddling with all of it - including the LAN drivers - maybe I'll see somehing that looks related...

Jeez, I might want to goose this thing once - I user the native 7 drivers, and let them auto-update, and I'm showing 6.195.625.2007 - going to online driver update says all up to date! But they work fine... I know they have a newer diagnostic util that works great, too - but it wants to install to the taskbar, so, this install, I avoided it (too much start-up junk the way it is!;=)