I recently experienced some OS failures that began with a bad system wake up. After a lot of stress, i was able to fix everything with system restore. Yet, even though everything else is back to normal, the ethernet controller seems to have failed. Completely. (For clarity, the failure occured during my problems but was not fixed when I rolled back to a time prior to the issue).
Absolutely no recognition by OS or realtek. It is a realtek 8112 onboard LAN. When I try to install the drivers I've always used before, Realtek says that it cannnot find an ethernet controller. On the back of the mainboard, there are LED's in the ethernet port that seem ro have stopped functioning. Yes, I did confirm onboard LAN is enabled in the BIOS.
I've tried everything and am at a complete loss. I am beginning to suspect hardware failure. That seems unlikely because every other port and function of my motherboard seems to be functioning. If it is a hardware failure, is it just coincidence that it happened at the same time as my other issues?
Any and all help would be appreciated.
Absolutely no recognition by OS or realtek. It is a realtek 8112 onboard LAN. When I try to install the drivers I've always used before, Realtek says that it cannnot find an ethernet controller. On the back of the mainboard, there are LED's in the ethernet port that seem ro have stopped functioning. Yes, I did confirm onboard LAN is enabled in the BIOS.
I've tried everything and am at a complete loss. I am beginning to suspect hardware failure. That seems unlikely because every other port and function of my motherboard seems to be functioning. If it is a hardware failure, is it just coincidence that it happened at the same time as my other issues?
Any and all help would be appreciated.