Changed a faulty hard drive yesterday. Booted back up and no network showing in Windows 7 x64. Downloaded latest drivers from Gigabyte site (via laptop) and installed. Windows still couldn't find hardware.
Loss of both onboard network port even though LED would flash with cable in.
Did a clean install of Windows 7 same fault.
Did a clean install of Vista 64 same fault.
Restored my C drive with a backup image fusing Acronis True Image
Well that's me convinced that it's a hardware fault. Looked in my spares box and found a 10/100 NIC SIS 900 card. Well found 2 of them but the first one wouldn't show up in Windows 7. Second one did no to find a driver as the card is about 10 years old. On to the SIS site no Vista or Windows 7 drivers.
Tried the XP64 driver and it worked. Great at least I'm back online but now I have a faulty motherboard.
Tried setting BIOS settings back to default, double check to see that LAN ports are enabled in BIOS, which they were. No joy, still no onboard LAN ports.
A fiend of mine Nelly, gave me a link to another forum with a solution, though I'd nothing to loose.
I powered off the machine, turned power off at wall. Hit the power button on the PC to drain all the power. Waited 1 minute, powered back on at wall, turned PC on and bingo both ports now show up in device manager.
Disabled SIS network card in device manager, swapped cable over and it's working fine.
Anyone else had this fault? Using BIOS F7.
Loss of both onboard network port even though LED would flash with cable in.
Did a clean install of Windows 7 same fault.
Did a clean install of Vista 64 same fault.
Restored my C drive with a backup image fusing Acronis True Image
Well that's me convinced that it's a hardware fault. Looked in my spares box and found a 10/100 NIC SIS 900 card. Well found 2 of them but the first one wouldn't show up in Windows 7. Second one did no to find a driver as the card is about 10 years old. On to the SIS site no Vista or Windows 7 drivers.
Tried the XP64 driver and it worked. Great at least I'm back online but now I have a faulty motherboard.
Tried setting BIOS settings back to default, double check to see that LAN ports are enabled in BIOS, which they were. No joy, still no onboard LAN ports.
A fiend of mine Nelly, gave me a link to another forum with a solution, though I'd nothing to loose.
I powered off the machine, turned power off at wall. Hit the power button on the PC to drain all the power. Waited 1 minute, powered back on at wall, turned PC on and bingo both ports now show up in device manager.
Disabled SIS network card in device manager, swapped cable over and it's working fine.
Anyone else had this fault? Using BIOS F7.