Hey everyone,
Alright, my main issue is that my ethernet port on my motherboard stopped working. The small lights around the ethernet port do not light up when there is an ethernet cord connected to it.
My PC has both Windows 10 and Linux Mint installed on my main hard drive.I have already tried updating the drivers in windows and my motherboard bios is up to date. I tried to connect to the internet using the Linux as well, even went as far as to try to run linux mint from a portable usb drive. They all could not detect that ethernet was plugged in, which led me to believe that the ethernet port was shot for the motherboard. So I bought a PCIe ethernet card to try to solve the problem.
For some reason the ethernet card worked on windows for about 30 minutes for the first time, and then my computer would not be able to detect that the card was connected, even after reboot. Linux had similar results. The card worked perfectly for my other PC, so I don't think that the card was defective
On a possibly related note, my computer also randomly reboots itself without warning. The average temperature for the motherboard is around 50-55 degrees C while the cpu runs at about 40-50 degrees C, so I believe that rules out overheating.
Specs:
Motherboard: AsusTek M5A78L-M/USB3
CPU: AMD FX-6300
GPU:NVidia GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
Windows 10-64bit and Linux Mint Dual-boot
PSU: EVGA 500W
I realize that the motherboard might need to be replaced, but I wanted to see if there was anything else I can do to make sure that I need to replace it.
Thanks
Alright, my main issue is that my ethernet port on my motherboard stopped working. The small lights around the ethernet port do not light up when there is an ethernet cord connected to it.
My PC has both Windows 10 and Linux Mint installed on my main hard drive.I have already tried updating the drivers in windows and my motherboard bios is up to date. I tried to connect to the internet using the Linux as well, even went as far as to try to run linux mint from a portable usb drive. They all could not detect that ethernet was plugged in, which led me to believe that the ethernet port was shot for the motherboard. So I bought a PCIe ethernet card to try to solve the problem.
For some reason the ethernet card worked on windows for about 30 minutes for the first time, and then my computer would not be able to detect that the card was connected, even after reboot. Linux had similar results. The card worked perfectly for my other PC, so I don't think that the card was defective
On a possibly related note, my computer also randomly reboots itself without warning. The average temperature for the motherboard is around 50-55 degrees C while the cpu runs at about 40-50 degrees C, so I believe that rules out overheating.
Specs:
Motherboard: AsusTek M5A78L-M/USB3
CPU: AMD FX-6300
GPU:NVidia GeForce GTX 1060 3GB
Windows 10-64bit and Linux Mint Dual-boot
PSU: EVGA 500W
I realize that the motherboard might need to be replaced, but I wanted to see if there was anything else I can do to make sure that I need to replace it.
Thanks