Lightening broke my Ethernet adapter...

chrisgt · 26 Aug 2011 at 19:59

No, seriously...

I was down stairs when there was some huge lightening/thunder, come back up to my PC and it's off (even though I have a surge protector?). Anyway, I turn it on and it boots, get into Windows and there's a red X on my internet icon.

I run the trouble shooter and it says I'm missing the network adapter driver. I download the Gigabyte RealLAN adapter from the Gigabyte website on my other PC. Try to re-install the driver, it says the network adapter cannot be found or is in deep sleep mode.

System is a Titan Xenomorph, with Gigabyte h55m-ud2h mobo. I have plugged in a wireless adapter and have that, but ideally I'd like to get the ethernet adapter working again.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

PCDave · 26 Aug 2011 at 20:01

Is the network card present in device manager?

Grimley · 26 Aug 2011 at 20:06

Replace it with this.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-106-EX

scrlk · 26 Aug 2011 at 20:15

Shame they don't sell Intel NICs any more on OcUK, they were the best.

weird_dave · 26 Aug 2011 at 21:53

Surge protectors cannot protect against lightening, despite what it says on the box. That's not to say they're not worth having though.

panyan · 26 Aug 2011 at 23:15

i imagine the lightning hit the telephone pole for the street, the spike was carried through the telephone line, through your router and blew a fuse on your mobo

chrisgt · 27 Aug 2011 at 10:05

Thanks for all the replies.

PCDave said:
Is the network card present in device manager?

Nope..under network adapters all it is showing is my wireless card...

Grimley said:
Replace it with this.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-106-EX

Would this be fine for 50MB broadband?

panyan said:
i imagine the lightning hit the telephone pole for the street, the spike was carried through the telephone line, through your router and blew a fuse on your mobo

How random/weird/and kind of scary! Looks like I'll have to get a replacement card!

DazQ87 · 27 Aug 2011 at 10:19

random thought, (Its a long shot) check it's enabled in the BIOS. I had a similar affair with my brothers PC where I couldnt get the onboard audio working, turns out it had become disabled in the bios for no aparant reason.

scrlk · 27 Aug 2011 at 10:27

If you have a dual slot GPU, it might be worth getting a PCI-E NIC just to give the GPU more room to breath. In that case, you might want to get the Intel Gigabit CT.

chrisgt · 27 Aug 2011 at 11:42

DazQ87 said:
random thought, (Its a long shot) check it's enabled in the BIOS. I had a similar affair with my brothers PC where I couldnt get the onboard audio working, turns out it had become disabled in the bios for no aparant reason.

Just tried this, there are a couple options for LAN adapter in BIOS, but both are enabled.

Vinni3 @H|H said:
If you have a dual slot GPU, it might be worth getting a PCI-E NIC just to give the GPU more room to breath. In that case, you might want to get the Intel Gigabit CT.

I have a GTX 460 - I think it takes up 2 slots, can't remember. I think I have an old PCI card somewhere, just wondering if it will be ok to handle 50MB, it's like 10 years old lol