Ethernet not working???

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Ok, I installed XP again last night & again today but I cannot get my onboard ethernet to work.

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EG31M-S2 Rev 2.0
Onboard Lan: Realtek RTL8111C
OS: Windows XP SP3

I have tried the latest drivers from the Realtek & Gigabyte sites as well as the CD that came with the MB.
I have tried using the .exe installer and updating the driver via the device manager pointing it to the correct folder.
I have also uninstalled the adapter several times.

I keep on getting two adapters listed in device manager, one with the proper description and one with a yellow questionmark.

I keep on getting told the adapter has limited or no connectivity.
I have played around with the WOL, Powesave & Duplex/Speed settings.

It works fine under linux and it used to work fine on my previous XP SP3 install.

I'm about to pull my frigging hair out here, any ideas?
 
Something is dodgy here.

Applications take minutes to open, system is slow and unresponsive while waiting for things to open. When I installed Comodo it never showed up as an installed application but one of it's services were running.

This is the second install I have done. Never experienced anything like this before.
 
OOO I hate that.

Hmm okay from the time I bough my pc the on board NIC never wants to automatically assign ip addresses. Only way is manual setting in the ip Addresses.

What you can do is uninstall the drivers then restart the pc your pc will still run slow still but wait for the windows hardware from windows to tell you to install the driver. Then install it using it that way make sure you only install it once even if it looks like its not installed.(pc should still be running slow)

Restart again see if the driver is then installed. If its still not or give you a problem, just restart again should work now.
 
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CrzWaco said:
OOO I hate that.

Hmm okay from the time I bough my pc the on board NIC never wants to automatically assign ip addresses. Only way is manual setting in the ip Addresses.

What you can do is uninstall the drivers then restart the pc your pc will still run slow still but wait for the windows hardware from windows to tell you to install the driver. Then install it using it that way make sure you only install it once even if it looks like its not installed.(pc should still be running slow)

Restart again see if the driver is then installed. If its still not or give you a problem, just restart again should work now.
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Hehe, done that as well several times. I have tried every single possible thing I can think of.
 
Screw this, gonna fire up the Win7 32bit DVD and see if my experience is better than the 64bit one.
 
ponder said:
Screw this, gonna fire up the Win7 32bit DVD and see if my experience is better than the 64bit one.
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haha yeah I ended up buying a pci one because screw the dam manual setting of the dam NIC. :D
 
ponder said:
Something is dodgy here.

Applications take minutes to open, system is slow and unresponsive while waiting for things to open. When I installed Comodo it never showed up as an installed application but one of it's services were running.

This is the second install I have done. Never experienced anything like this before.
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Sounds like XP when i go into from windows 7. Most frustrating OS on the planet. You only notice how frustrating and annoying it can be after you have been using vista and 7.
 
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