Ethernet issue

[KING_OF_SAND]

I gave my brother my Gigabyte UD3 ver1.1 with my 1090t and everything is working except the ethernet.

I have installed the realtek drivers with no luck and the computer freezes whenever I try to trouble shoot the issue. But here is the kicker, I tried to troubleshoot in safe mode but the ethernet works in safe mode. This leads me to believe this is a Realtek issue, but why does the computer freeze when troubleshooting with and without the driver?

I myself am still troubleshooting myself but am baffled as to how to fix it. Does anyone have a solution or a possible fix apart from going wireless or getting a separate ethernet controller?

 

[Rastalovich]

Any kind of "Gigabyte Efficiency Saving" oem software on there ?

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

There is literally ZERO programs on the computer, and ZERO drivers.

 

[Rastalovich]

The only time I've had a network port behave like it's not there was during an extreme overclock. Taking the fsb over a certain value killed off coms to other components before the cpu. You'll generally have things die off one at a time when you push the fsb to it's extremes.

If something is being 'allowed' to work in safe-mode, that could also point to whatever it's sharing irq with isn't being allowed to load it's drivers, and needs drivers to operate - something that windows doesn't class as a 'critical' component - so the nic thinks it's happy days. One of the things that gets an allowance to work in safe-modes is networking for diag reasons. Irqs can be messed around when they're shared with other devices and pci(e) slots. Having a 16x slot plus an overclock sharing with.. audio/network.. can give weird results. Audio you can hear the problems.

Strip the sucker down, basic bios, and see if it works ok then. Whether the windows install is good at this point may be debatable.