My onboard RealTek NIC has gone MIA. Can anyone help me?

[Moondoggy]

I have a Realtek PCIe GBE family NIC onboard my ASUS motherboard that was working fine today but has now gone MIA. Can anyone assist me in recovering this NIC?

I was trying to install a new graphics card tonight but the new card will not fit so I put the old card back in. I booted my Windows 10 64 bit system and everything seemed to work except I could not connect to the internet. I ran the troubleshooter and at first it said that I didn't have a driver installed. I could into system/devices and view the hidden devices and I could see the adapter. I could also go into system information and the adapter was listed there too. I checked my bios and the adapter is still listed as enabled and when I unplug and re-plug the NIC cable in the connections disappears and reappears on my modem. I read some thread that said to remove the device and reboot and let Windows rediscover the device but it doesn't find it. Now when I run the troubleshooter it says that it cannot even find a NIC in the computer. I think I was very careful not to touch anything when I was removing and reinstalling the graphic card so I'm at a loss as to what happened to the NIC and how to get the NIC back. Can anyone help?

 

[captaincharisma]

i would go into your bios and see if it is still enabled or reset your BIOS to defaults

 

[Moondoggy]

I checked the bios already and verified that the NIC is enabled in the BIOS

 

[Wolfshadw]

Verify the cable is still connected or reinstall the Network drivers from the CD that came with your motherboard or download the lastest from another PC and install.

-Wolf sends

 

[Moondoggy]

Since the MOBO is kind of old there are no Windows 10 drivers for the NIC. I checked the internet and I could not find a driver for it either (at least one that wasn't infected with malware) so I took the PC into town today and a tech told me that onboard NIC's are somewhat prone to sudden failure and that I should simply disable the old NIC in the BIOS and install a new NIC for $20 (which he installed for me) and Windows 10 picked up the new card immediately on boot up so I'm good to go. Thanks for the reply.