Is my motherboard network adapter failing?

gailjon

gailjon

gailjon

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Hi all,

I have had my Asus X99 Deluxe motherboard since I built my PC in December 2015. It has been great with only upgrade being RTX 2080 and another M.2 SSD using the supplied ASUS adapter.

However, there have recenly been a whole slew of issues with the network connectivity. The wifi and ethernet (through a TP LInk powerline adapter) have been showing connection issues and often show no internet/cable unplugged error messages.

I had the ethernet cable plugged into the motherboard and it would show as Ethernet 2 Intel Ethernet connection but it started to say cable unplugged or you are connected but no internet.

At the same time, the wifi has become really flaky and will often show no internet.

Every other device in the house works fine, both on wifi or ethernet through the powerline adapters in other rooms. I was wondering if this may be related to a failing network adapter on the motherboard? I have tried updating drivers, resetiign network settings, restarting PC/router, etc but still theiussues persisit.

How likely is a failing network adapter? Ta in advance.
 
gailjon said:
How likely is a failing network adapter?
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Not the most common failure on a board however is does happen, literally last week I just replaced a board (similar age) as the network adapter would randomly cause the PC to completely turn off, was about 5 days of fault finding and confirming that was the fault. Would have normally just put in an new network card, but it was ITX, so there was no option for that and they didn't want a USB to Ethernet s chose the expensive option.

Have you confirmed it isn't the cable or the port that the cable is going into on the switch/router/plug?
 
Journey said:
Not the most common failure on a board however is does happen, literally last week I just replaced a board (similar age) as the network adapter would randomly cause the PC to completely turn off, was about 5 days of fault finding and confirming that was the fault. Would have normally just put in an new network card, but it was ITX, so there was no option for that and they didn't want a USB to Ethernet s chose the expensive option.

Have you confirmed it isn't the cable or the port that the cable is going into on the switch/router/plug?
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Thanks for the reply. I have changed the ports on the pc but not tried the router ports. Typically the cable is a PITA to get to but will try the cable as well.
 
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