Onboard network adapter suddenly missing aka oh god where will I get my porn now?
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[b]Full system specs[/b]
Windows 7 ultimate
Intel i5 750 @stock clocks
Asus P7H57D-V EVO
3x2gb Corsair DDR3 1333mhz ram
Ati HD5870 @ stock clocks
2x Samsung 250gb HDD's
[b]Events leading up to the problem[/b]
As a way to maximize the possibility of some of you people coming up with a solution, let me detail the last few days before this problem occured.
After a problem of my PC going directly into BIOS on startup forced me to spend hours on a live-CD of Knoppix looking for help, I discovered that Linux wasn't that bad and decided to, after I solved the problem (which to much infuriation turned out to be a stuck delete key)give Linux a try through a propper installation of a more versatile distro.
For whatever reason, Fedora seemed pretty cool. One half hour of torrenting and burning later, I had myself an install disk. I pop it in, boot from CD drive and is greeted with a wall of rapidly passing error messages. They where about something regarding memory allocation and my ATI graphics card. I couldn't read them and while scavanging for my camera to take a still picture of it the error messages stop spewing and it gets right on with booting.
However, since I forgot to turn the space i shrinked of off C:\ into an actual partition (something I feel rather embarrisingly stupid about) I have to boot back into windows to actually do that. Thinking back, I'm sure fedora had some way to do that from the live boot but it did not occur to me at the time.
I then do that (there was no problem at this point) and try to boot into fedora again but this time the same error messages as before won't stop spewing, even after several minutes. I try booting once more with the same result so I give up and decide to boot into windows again to check up the issue online and, if no solution was to be found simply get a new distro.
However upon booting into windows...
[b]The problem and things I've tried[/b]
...I have no internet. I open the network and sharing central to find that my network adapter wasn't there, all I see is the damn thing trying to connect to the internet through Hamachi. I disable hamachi to no avail and the windows diagnostics thing tells me that no propperly installed network adapter was discovered. I get my motherboard driver CD and proceed to reinstall the LAN drivers from there. The install process tells me that it can't find a network adapter. Device manager doesn't have an entry for a network adapter with a yellow exclaimation mark either, it's simply gone.
[b]I did find a somewhat aging PCI network card[/b] in an older scrap computer I keep around for, well, aparently just this kind of thing. [b]However the drivers are only availible for 32-bit systems[/b] and haven't been updated since 2002(although I read online they do work for vista and 7). [b]The model is 3C905B-TX if anyone happens to know where to get 64-bit drivers[/b] for it.
I'm now left with no internet and only the stuff on my hard drive to entertain me. The thought of going outside crossed my mind but I'm not that desperate. [i]yet.[/i]
[b]At my disposal[/b] is a windows 7 recovery CD, my mobo drivers CD with lan drivers and a secondary computer with functioning internet for this thread and downloading possible fixes. I do still have warranty on it if it turns out to be simply broke, but stripping my pc and repaggaging my mobo, waiting several days (possibly weeks) while they test it and get back to me (hopefully with a new one) is not my first choice.
I'm happy to supply any further information and I'll be sure to watch over this thread as well as I can.
Thanks in advance.
Edit:
Oh, and I have no system restore points or images before this problem occured. This is definitely something I'll remedy in the future.
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