Dead Ethernet controller?

Terry1975

Terry1975

Terry1975

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Morning everyone.

I’ve got a problem with my aged pc in that the Ethernet port on the motherboard is not working.

Motherboard is ancient it’s an

Asus M4A79T Deluxe​

From about 2009.

I’ve tried the Ethernet cable in a laptop and it works fine.

I’ve purchased an Ethernet PCIe card installed it but nothing.
Device manager says drivers are fine but when I tried to install the drivers from the disk it said no card detected so couldn’t install drivers.

I’ve tried different PCIe slots and still nothing.

I’ve moved my GFX to another PCIe slot and it works fine.

I’ve disabled the onboard Lan in Bios but this didn’t help.

There are no lights when I plug the Ethernet lead into either the new card or onboard.

It is possible the new lan card is a dead one but I’m leaning towards the motherboard.

Any ideas I haven’t tried would be great thank you, mainly because I’ve literally just bough the components to build my sons new rig for Christmas.
 
What model is the PCIe card that you got, maybe it is to new and the bios is not able to detect it, Try to get some old model pci card like the intel pro 1000MT card (pci model not the newer pcie card).
 
Could it be the Ethernet cable ?

I brought a cheap usb Wi-Fi dongle when I had a simmlar problem, got me back online.
 
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Thanks for the replies.

I think I’ve made a rookie error and the card isn’t in fact compatible with windows 10

It’s a

1Gb PCIE Network Card Intel 82574L - EXPI9301CT Chip​

 
Sorry this won't help you much but I also had an Asus motherboard if a similar era to yours, and the onboard network card also died, as did the onboard sound, at different stages.

I think Asus stuff is junk mind you, I don't have a high opinion of their anything really.
 
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