Onboard Realtek RTL6168B/8111B Family PCI-E gigabit ethernet NIC

[SkiBum1575]

I have been using the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L motherboard with Realtek RTL6168B/8111B Family PCI-E gigabit ethernet NIC for quite some time. I am running on Vista 32. Just yesterday, I was connected to the internet and everything was great. I get back from work today and I couldn't connect to the internet. I diagnosed the problem, and it said that there was no networking hardware installed. I tried to reinstall the network card, but the computer would not recognize any new hardware as being installed. I went to the BIOS, disabled and re-enabled the card with no avail. I downloaded the realtek driver, installed it, and still nothing. Any ideas?

 

[boomerang]

Sounds like the onboard NIC has died.

You can add in a PCI card.

 

[JackMDS]

May be there is a "Ghost" in the device manger.

http://www.ezlan.net/debug.html

 

[SkiBum1575]

It isn't a ghost. The network card doesn't even show up in the device manager. I tried to search for it, but no new hardware showed up after the search.

 

[JackMDS]

Then you need a new card.