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Realtek nic just went kapoot on my ASUS A7N266-e

Nocturnal

Nocturnal

Lifer
basically i press the sleep button on my keyboard on accident. this sent it into sleep mode. it froze up, right after this i rebooted, i looked at my router and my computers connection wasnt on.

weird.

so i try everything, unplug router, unplug cat5 cable, do all that good stuff. it doesnt work.

i had to unplug the power supply cable to the motherboard and plug it back in and it worked.

this motherboard is less then a week old from ASUS.

what could have gone wrong?

can it be my power supply?

in the device manager, the nic was still there and it said it was functioning properly.
 
You might want to uninstall the driver, remove NIC, reboot again, shut down, reinstall NIC in difference slot, reboot and install driver again. If it doesnt work, then it's dead. I have serveral Kingston NICs with Realtek chipset died for no reason.
 
Found a recent article comparing various NICs available out on the market today. Those based on the Realtek chipset seemed to have performed poorly out of the bunch. Not sure if this is a validation of their flakiness, but it's still a good read nevertheless.
 
yeah blow away the driver... sometime devices that sleep don't wake up... after you've got it working try disabling power saving for this device.
 
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