Network Adapter has gone MIA

Moondoggy

Moondoggy

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I have a Realtek PCIe GBE family NIC on my ASUS motherboard that was working fine today but has now gone MIA. Can anyone assist me in recovering this NIC?

I was trying to install a new graphics card tonight but the new card will not fit so I put the old card back in. I booted my Windows 10 64 bit system and everything seemed to work except I could not connect to the internet. I ran the troubleshooter and at first it said that I didn't have a driver installed. I could into system/devices and view the hidden devices and I could see the adapter. I could also go into system information and the adapter was listed there too. I checked my bios and the adapter is still listed as enabled and when I unplug and re-plug the NIC cable in the connections disappears and reappears on my modem. I read some thread that said to remove the device and reboot and let Windows rediscover the device but it doesn't find it. I think I was very careful not to touch anything when I was removing and reinstalling the graphic card so I'm at a loss as to what happened to the NIC and how to get the NIC back. Can anyone help?
 
Go into Device Manager and right click on your Realtek NIC then select Uninstall. Reboot the computer and Windows should pick up the card and install the drivers. If Windows doesn't detect the card, automatically install the drivers, or if you don't see the Realtek listed under Network Adapters in Device Mgr, you may have unseated the NIC. Shut down, pull the card and try reseating it.
 
I uninstalled the Network adapter before I posted and the NIC is onboard my ASUS Mobo so I cannot re-seat the card. After I uninstalled the adapter from my devices list and rebooted Windows 10 did not re-discover the adapter as I had hoped.
 
Use another computer and go to the Asus website. Enter your computer model and download the drivers for your LAN card and OS to a flash drive. Try installing the drivers off the flash drive.
 
Unfortunately, ASUS doesn't have Windows 10 drivers for this older board so I decided to not waste time and had a new NIC installed for $20. I talked to two Tech's I know and both said that onboard NIC's are prone to sudden failure and they typically don't waste the customers money trying to troubleshoot something that probably isn't recoverable anyway and given the cost of a new NIC I decided that this was the best route to go. Thanks for the reply.
 

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