Hello everyone!
I am in an annoying situation. I bought a new motherboard because my old one broke (although I actually ended up fixing it after I bought the new one - the pins were slightly bent on the cpu socket) and thought I may aswell upgrade to the gen 8 cpus. I bought a Intel i5 8400 and a z370 extreme4.
Took me a while to install since I kept * up, but after a couple hours I got it to boot and it turned on fine. Windows did the whole getting devices ready spiel and after an hour of that I could finally use the PC. Except the ethernet didn't work. Windows will not acknowledge that the ethernet is plugged in. I thought its probably just the mobo driver - I hadn't installed them before via cd - so I hop onto a laptop and download the ASRock z370 Lan drivers and put them into a USB. Great. Unfortunately it won't install on the PC since it freezes at 'Intel network connections setup is preparing the install wizard'. I shutdown the PC and go into bios. Maybe lan or something was disabled. I tried running 'internet flash' and suprisingly that worked fine. It updated the bios to the latest firmware over the plugged in ethernet cable. At this point I was sure I just needed the driver to install and everything would work. So I put my old motherboard back in with the old CPU, ram etc and booted to windows, downloaded all the drivers I could find, installed them and put back my new motherboard in. No luck. That didn't do anything.
Now I am really stuck and I have no idea what to do. My last hope is you guys.
I am in an annoying situation. I bought a new motherboard because my old one broke (although I actually ended up fixing it after I bought the new one - the pins were slightly bent on the cpu socket) and thought I may aswell upgrade to the gen 8 cpus. I bought a Intel i5 8400 and a z370 extreme4.
Took me a while to install since I kept * up, but after a couple hours I got it to boot and it turned on fine. Windows did the whole getting devices ready spiel and after an hour of that I could finally use the PC. Except the ethernet didn't work. Windows will not acknowledge that the ethernet is plugged in. I thought its probably just the mobo driver - I hadn't installed them before via cd - so I hop onto a laptop and download the ASRock z370 Lan drivers and put them into a USB. Great. Unfortunately it won't install on the PC since it freezes at 'Intel network connections setup is preparing the install wizard'. I shutdown the PC and go into bios. Maybe lan or something was disabled. I tried running 'internet flash' and suprisingly that worked fine. It updated the bios to the latest firmware over the plugged in ethernet cable. At this point I was sure I just needed the driver to install and everything would work. So I put my old motherboard back in with the old CPU, ram etc and booted to windows, downloaded all the drivers I could find, installed them and put back my new motherboard in. No luck. That didn't do anything.
Now I am really stuck and I have no idea what to do. My last hope is you guys.
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