Wired internet drivers are gone, cannot reinstall them. Device manager can't do an auto search.

BlazingCouch

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Oct 25, 2016
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Hey,

So I was on windows 8.1 and I was messing with a bit of overclocking and then decided that wasn't going to work when it gave me an error after a reboot so I tried to go back to what I was doing earlier. Turns out my Ethernet wasn't working and a SSD wasn't being recognized anymore. I gave up on windows 8.1 and switched to 10 so I could get on that DX12 thing. I'm on a wireless dongle now but I'm just trying to get my wired connection back. Apparently the entire Ethernet driver is gone. I cannot reinstall it because when I try to install drivers from both my motherboard and intel, they both tell me that there are no network drivers and cannot continue. Here is a picture of what my device manager look like right now with nothing in it. I have no idea what the WAN miniport stuff is, that's new since I installed windows 10.
http://imgur.com/nGo3Gff

Here is the error message I get when I try to install network drivers:
http://imgur.com/COMVWp5

Thanks in advance.
 
Solution
The error you are getting when trying to install the Intel drivers is that there is no Intel adapter detected. Double check your hardware specs, as you may have some Intel hardware for things like the chipset and SATA, but your network adapter may be something different.
The error you are getting when trying to install the Intel drivers is that there is no Intel adapter detected. Double check your hardware specs, as you may have some Intel hardware for things like the chipset and SATA, but your network adapter may be something different.
 
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