Problems With LAN.

[18hockey]

I have an Asus M5A99FX Motherboard, and I've had my computer for about a week now. It worked fine for that period of time, but now it won't connect to the internet. Windows says that my LAN Adapter is having problems, so I went into BIOS, disabled it, restarted my computer then turned it back on again, but it didn't work. I then tried uninstalling the drivers (Realtek) then reinstalling them from the CD that came with my motherboard, but that didn't work either. Next, I found the lastest drivers on the Asus site for LAN, downloaded those, put them on a flash drive, but again to no avail.

I'm really frustrated and tired by this point, and I really wish it would work. I saw another thread on here with a guy who had the same problem on a different board, and he said he did a "CMOS" (I have no idea what is) which fixed his problem. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this, or to do what the other guy did?

Edit: I bet I put this in the wrong section, sorry. I'm a bit new here...

 

[C12Friedman]

You can attempt to reset your CMOS, your motherboard manual explains where and how. If you don't want to go to that trouble, the 'quick and dirty' way is to (with computer unplugged from the wall and PSU powered off) remove the CMOS battery (the watch battery) from the motherboard for 30 seconds then replace it. When you boot up it should take you into BIOS to reset the clock. Hopefully that'll do it

 

[Shaun o]

If my memory serves me right the Asus M5A99FX requires a bios firmware update.
It is a known problem with some of the boards with a lower revision of the bios firmware.

It is likely what the guy did to fix the problem.