No LAN connection on P8Z77-V LX

[Kirandia]

Hello all, I just installed Win 10 on my pc, and I can't connect through Ethernet cable and get online. I have updated all the the drivers I could find and have no unknown devices in device manager, installed LAN driver from Asus motherboard site, and device manager shows Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller. I came upon a post asking to enter bios and enable some of the LAN settings, but I cannot find such settings in my bios. No mention of LAN anywhere. Help me please, I am not very literate with a computer, when it comes to these things, mostly Google tells me what to do, or forums....
P.S.
I believe the Ethernet port used to light up, now it doesn't.

 

[fudgecakes99]

I don't know specifically about lan settings that you have to enable in the bios. If you downloaded the correct lan driver for your specific motherboard it should work.

 

[Kirandia]

I don't know specifically about lan settings that you have to enable in the bios. If you downloaded the correct lan driver for your specific motherboard it should work.

It should, but it doesn't. If the LAN port is integrated in the motherboard, imho bios should have settings to enable/disable it.

 

[fudgecakes99]

Does the lan port work at first but whenever you leave does it turn off in sleep mode or in a low power state?

 

[Kirandia]

Does the lan port work at first but whenever you leave does it turn off in sleep mode or in a low power state?

I am not sure what you are asking, because the LAN port doesn't work at all. Everything was fine until I installed windows 10, since then it's like there is no Ethernet cable plugged in, and I see some threads that ask to go to bios LAN settings, which are non existent for me.

 

[fudgecakes99]

Sometimes, certain bios updates or outdate bio's can have a bug where if your pc goes into sleepmode you lose your connection. The lan port goes into a low power state, but when you come back it never boots out of it. So it's in a perceptual state where it's not in use.

Does it show up in device manager. If it does, go to network settings make sure you're lan network is enabled.

 

[Kirandia]

Sometimes, certain bios updates or outdate bio's can have a bug where if your pc goes into sleepmode you lose your connection. The lan port goes into a low power state, but when you come back it never boots out of it. So it's in a perceptual state where it's not in use.

Does it show up in device manager. If it does, go to network settings make sure you're lan network is enabled.

Device manager shows Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller in the Network adapters tab. When I access Realtek's properties, and go to advanced tab I can enable/disable:
Arp offload; auto disable gigabit; energy efficient Ethernet; flow control; green Ethernet; interrupt moderation; IPv4 checksum offload; jumbo frame; large send offload v2(IPv4); large send offload v2(IPv6); maximum number of RSS queues; network address; NS offload; priority & vlan; receive buffers; receive side scaling; shutdown wake on LAN; speed & duplex; TCP checksum offload (IPv4); TCP checksum offload (IPv6); transmit buffers; wake on magic packet; wake on pattern match; WOL & shutdown link speed.

Sooo, anything that has Ethernet or LAN word is enabled.

 

[fudgecakes99]

go to command prompt and type ipconfig /release then ipconfig /renew.

See if that fixes anything if that doens't work. Reset the bios. Try to flash it if you can. Then download the latest realtek pcie gbe family controller driver from intel. See if that fixes anything.

 

[Kirandia]

go to command prompt and type ipconfig /release then ipconfig /renew.

See if that fixes anything if that doens't work. Reset the bios. Try to flash it if you can. Then download the latest realtek pcie gbe family controller driver from intel. See if that fixes anything.

command prompt states "no operation can be performed on ethernet while it has its media disconnected"
continue on to your other suggestions?

 

[fudgecakes99]

Is the ethernet cable plugged in all the way into the router? Have you tried plugging in a different cable into the lan port. Or the same cable but into a different ethernet port on the router?