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Old November 9th, 2015, 01:01 AM
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Network Adapter Vanished

I have a

EPOX ep-9npa ultra

and the network adapter

just disappeared and windows cannot find it.

and i tried to restart the whole os and still no netwprk adapter

is there a site where i can get the drivers because i can not manually find them
at all.
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Old November 9th, 2015, 01:17 AM
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I've had network adapters "disappear" several times and every time the cure was to buy and install a new one. They're easy enough to replace with a USB network adapter.

They're basically circuit boards and circuit boards do just go bad sometimes although I know I lost at least two to lightning strikes coming through the phone lines.
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Old November 9th, 2015, 01:23 AM
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oh my well ill have to do that then
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Old November 9th, 2015, 01:28 AM
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Reading some reviews of the mobo, I would suggest you have done well to get 8 years out of the on-board NIC... but before shelling out $ to add a new nic (internal PCI or USB) I would try disabling the onboard in the BIOS, boot to windows and delete any mention of it in Device manager then reboot.

Reboot again and re-enable the NIC in the BIOS and see if Device manager re-detects the NIC.

p.s. You only need to post your subject once - I removed the duplicate topic in the Networking forum.
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Old November 9th, 2015, 01:31 AM
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i didnt know if i posted in the right section. how do i disable the onboard bios and there is no mention of it all all in the device manager.
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Old November 9th, 2015, 01:39 AM
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i do have a unknown in my device manager do anyone knows which driver i can install
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Old November 9th, 2015, 01:41 AM
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... how do i disable the onboard bios...
As you boot your system, press DEL key when prompted to enter BIOS set-up.
The on-board NIC should be listed under Integrated Peripherals.
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Old November 9th, 2015, 04:11 AM
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In addition to the above I believe that motherboard uses the Realtek network card. Drivers are here:

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&GetDown=false
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Old November 9th, 2015, 07:05 PM
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If Smury's suggestions don't work, I would swap out the Ethernet cable. These are critical but very cheap "devices" and are easily damaged by too many yanks and trip overs. A bad cable can, in some cases, render the NIC unusable. And I have a old 4-port router that disabled the NIC of any computer plugged into port 4. No problems with ports 1 - 3. So try a different router port with your new cable too.

If still not good, check your motherboard. Even many older boards had two network ports. Beyond that, then I agree to adding a new card.

Adding a new PCI network card is easy and does not take up a USB port.
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