Help please! Internet problem :/

[Jouho]

Alright, I was playing Counter-Strike: Source, when my computer froze or something, I did a forced restart (via case button).

The computer did a disk/disc check and maybe other thing(s), but I noticed after being back in Windows, the internet doesn't work!! Wtf

However, the internet DOES work with Asus's Express Gate, which is some software that came with the mobo or w/e. I'm actually on it right now, on the SAME computer...

Internet in Express Gate (which I'm in even BEFORE the option to get into the bios comes up..) works, but in Windows, the internet does not work... ideas? :/, thanks.


Windows 7
Mobo is Asus M4A89TD-Pro USB3

 

[Jouho]

I went into Device Manager, found the network adapter or w/e, and it had a yellow triangle with a ! in it.

On one of the tabs of the properties or w/e for it, it had "This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for the device. (Code 31)"

What do I do? D:

Edit: Also, I did disable and re-enabled, and the yellow triangle came up again. :/

 

[Jouho]

Thanks for the reply, however I have gotten the internet to work.... I don't know why it stopped working in the first place...

I downloaded a driver or w/e via my phone, uploaded on comp, extracted, and ran the setup in a folder, it updated my drivers past what they were before, and the internet works! Any idea as to what the hell happened? Haha.

 

[tkrl26]

When your PC froze it was accessing the NIC driver, when you forced the reboot it corrupted the driver. So, reinstalling the driver replaced the bad one, inturn you can now access the net.

On top of the chkdsk /f, I would also run SFC /SCANNOW from cmd line.