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HTPC onboard LAN issues

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castun

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So I was having issues with the OS drive in my HTPC acting up. The occasional blue screen out of nowhere, stuff randomly stopped working. Ran CrystalDiskInfo and sure enough there were warnings and errors. Ordered a replacement drive to prepare for the inevitable, and then it failed. Couldn't find a bootable OS. No problem, all important data was backed up on another drive.

Reinstall Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 from scratch after replacing the drive, installed chipset & LAN drivers, but the LAN connection didn't work right. It asked about the network location and setting up the initial Homegroup, but for connection it's the yellow exclamation point and says Unknown Network, no internet connection. Trying the automated troubleshooting just hangs the system completely. Tried to uninstall and reinstall the drivers to no avail.

Could the issue be something deeper than just the hard drive dying? The NIC wasn't giving me any problems before, though I do remember once or twice in the past when the troubles first started to crop up, where the NIC stopped responding when copying large files or streaming a lot.

It's an Asus M4A87TD mobo with RealTek ethernet. Not sure if there's another version of drivers out there to use, I grabbed the latest directly from the Asus website. The generic drivers that come with Windows don't work. Don't have a spare NIC card lying around to use either.
 
stormy1 said:
tried a different network cable? different port on the router?
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Yeah, didn't do any good, though it did work a bit this morning until I installed updates and rebooted, then it stopped working again. Now even trying to disable & uninstall the driver through device manager results in it locking the system.
 
stormy1 said:
I would disable it in the bios and add a nic card.
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Probably what I will end up doing. Thanks.

Dangman said:
DId you try the old OS drive in another PC?
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To make sure the drive is actually failing? Not yet, no. It is an older IDE drive so I wasn't surprised when it started to report errors. I think I still have an external IDE enclosure lyring around I can quickly hook up to the other PC here.
 
Update: I actually booted the PC into Linux Mint Live USB, and the adapter works with no issue, and no having to mess with drivers. I'm going to try the ones offered directly on the Realtek website since they seem newer than the ones Asus provides on their website, so hopefully that works. If not, I may try a full format and reinstall of Windows from scratch. Otherwise, an addon card will be my last resort.
 
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