Asus ethernet problem

KeyKeeper

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Nov 22, 2004
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Just bought an asus p5ne sli mobo and I am having some weird problems. After installing the chipset drivers off the disc provided with the mobo it works fine. I then dL the newest drivers from nvidia and upon install it detects that a previous nvidia ethernet driver has been installed and it must remove it before setup can continue. It does and then restarts windows and commences normal install. Only problem is after installation, the nic doesnt show up in network connections and svchost is using 90% cpu at all times. The net adapter shows up in device manager but not when I right click my network places and I cannot set up a home network either. Am I missing something here? Even if I uninstall all the nvidia drivers through control panel, I still get same problem after installing drivers off disc again. I am thinking that the newest driver is removing an important file when it tries to uninstall the old ethernet driver. Any ideas?????

So far only way to fix this is to reinstall windows and just use the drivers that came with mobo but they are old as hell.
 

eplebnista

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Dec 3, 2001
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You could leave the current drivers installed and right click the nic in the device manager, select properties, and just rollback the single problematic nic driver. It is worth a try anyway.