apexwolk :
Bought and installed an Asus Z170-AR. Downloaded and installed all current drivers from Asus website. I sometimes get a connection and it works perfectly but mostly i get no connection and from troubleshooting i receive the message:
The Intel(R) Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V adapter is experiencing driver- or hardware- related problems'
Could anyone advise me on what to do or a possible fix.
Thankyou
SOLVED! ... at least for me. I ALWAYS appreciate the forums on TH, so I thought I would suck it up and take the time to reply, seeing as the method I'm about to explains actually WORKED for me. Ok nitty gritty,
Just built a new computer from scratch: Asus Z170-AR, i7 6700, 64 GB of Ram. I inserted the Asus update disk, and like most of you here ethernet would NOT update (I tried 3 or 4 times).
SOLUTION #1 (Didn't work for me, but I had WMI disabled)
I downloaded the driver onto my phone transferring over tom my comp via USB cable, which actually worked. HOWEVER as I had disabled Windows Management whatever whatever (WMI) because it causes my CPU to run at 100% and it is basically a giant pain. So when I went to open the downloaded file of the latest drivers it wouldn't let me run it without reactivating WMI - and that is NOT going to happen.
SO - HERE IS MY OTHER SOLUTION:
1.Insert the Asus Driver CD disk into your comptuer
2. Go to control panel
3. Open up Device Manager
4. Open up I want to say Network adapters
5. RIGHT CLICK on Lan/ethernet controller (says something like that)
5a. Choose "Update Driver Software"
5b. Choose the SECOND OPTION which says "Browse my computer for driver software"
6. Select the browse button
6a. Navigate to your disk drive with the Asus Driver CD and ***MAKE SURE "INCLUDE SUBFOLDERS" IS SELECTED!***
7. Push "next" and you should be done!
I hope this helps. I always appreciate the support on this site, hopefully this can help someone who is having what I have seen searching the internet to be a very common problem.
Best,
- Dave