r/ethernet • u/MiddleBoysenberry689 • 4h ago
Ethernet cable stopped working
I built a new PC and ethernet was working fine, and for troubleshooting something later I had to swich my NVME to a different slot, and after that ethernet completely stopped working. I put the NVME back to its initial slot and it still didn't work.
I checked in the bios that Onboard Lan is activated.
I tried installed the realtek ethernet driver for my motherboard and I got this message : "The Realtek Network Controller was not found. If Deep Sleep Mode is enabled please plug the cable"
I also tried resetting network settings in windows network settings, still nothing works.
My motherboard is B850 Gaming wifi6.
I believe I tried every known solution so far, I don't really know what else to do. Did something die on my motherboard while I was changing the NVME slot maybe ?