Major isues with NIC in new laptop

[ldun]

I'm having one hell of a fun issue with a new Thinkpad T540p that I just imaged at the office. I installed WIndows 7 x64 with our standard corp image, installed all drivers and softwares required and everything seemed fine with the world. I rebooted the machine and now I am completely unable to get a wired connection to work.

The integrated NIC is an Intel I217-LM

The first thing I tried is to verify the cabling and switches, not the issue as everything is 100% and works on other machines.
I updated the drivers to the latest version (20.0 from Intel site) and still no go.
Verified nothing is disabled in BIOS of Device Manager

That is when I noticed a fun quirk, under Network and Connections it shows as nothing connected, but if I go into Manage Network Card I see the LAN is set to Active, but with no IPv4 or IPv6 connectivity. (The NIC LEDs are also on as normal).

I then tried both "netsh winsock reset" and "netsh int ip reset rest.log" to no avail
Tried using older drivers (18.5 from Intel site), still not working

Any ideas on what could be going on?

UPDATE: The wireless card also seems to not want to connect to any networks either.

 

[ldun]

UPDATE #2:
Flashing up BIOS did not fix anything
Can "connect" to wireless netorks, in a limited access sort of way, same issue as with the wired NIC, active but no IPv4/IPv6 connectivity

 

[ldun]

UPDATE #3:
Seem to be having a similar problemwith another T540p a coworked is/was preparing, will try and steal that machine away to confirm.
UPDATE #3.5:
nope... other laptop has an actual blown port. really starting to annoy me.

Any have anything I can try?

 

[gferrin2012]

Quick question, it is quite obvious you are not a stranger to terminal, when you click on ipv4 and go into properties is it checked to automatically connect? if so have you tried a manual (static) ip? I would use, let's say, 192.168.1.122 for ip (should be safe) 255.255.255.0 for subnet and 192.168.1.1 for gateway (this is to set manually) We can start with these two things and see what happens. this is for wireless.

 

[gferrin2012]

in terminal:
ipconfig /release
net dhcp stop
net dhcp start
ipconfig renew

for local:
ipconfig /release Local*
net dhcp stop
net dhcp start
ipconfig /renew Local*