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Sorry, yeah, bad wording on my part. It is the motherboard port, @Oshino Shinobu just had suggested to buy an ethernet card instead of entirely getting a new mobo. Testing on Ubuntu and Linux seems to be a good amount of work, and even if it did solve the issue, I wouldn't want to continue using either of those OSs.

I've reinstalled windows again, and still no different conclusion. Same things happen, and internet still doesn't work. Do I have any other options rather than buying an ethernet card or exchanging my motherboard? Thanks for all the help guys

Still nothing. Same issues persist after I've rescanned, and installed those drivers. Also, driver folder you linked me was the same one I used to try to install in the first place. I'm confused though, like I said in my original post, the first time I installed windows on this build, the internet was working fine, I didn't even need to install the asus drivers from their website, as some motherboards come. But, after I reinstalled a few times, it was like this. So why would it stop working? If it came to that (which I really hope it doesn't have to) I could try to just get an ethernet card but I'd probably rather just go for a new motherboard in total, despite the huge hassle, since I want to be sure everything is working great and fine. If the ethernet randomly stopped working then other things might be experiencing issues too right?

Still nothing. The troubleshooter tells me to investigate router or broadband modem issuescmd, and then tells me the default gateway is not available. The results from "ipconfig /renew" are: "The operation failed as no adapter is in the state permissible for this operation." What do I do??? D:

Okay, here is the ipv4 and default gateway obtained from another computer on the network. This one has internet but not through ethernet, through wireless. IPv4: 10.0.0.219 (if I remember correctly from before, on my computer the ipv4 I'd see from ipconfig was 192.168.x.y (something like that)) Default Gateway: 10.0.0.1

When I went through those steps, both boxes were already checked, so I just unchecked IPv6. Results from "ipconfig": Windows IP Configuration Ethernet adapter Ethernet: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : hsd1.ca.comcast.net IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.43 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.1 Tunnel adapter isatap.hsd1.ca.comcast.net: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : hsd1.ca.comcast.net Results from "ipconfig /renew": Windows IP Configuration An error occurred while renewing interface Ethernet : unable to contact your DHCP server. Request has timed out.

I don't be to be untrusting, but can I ask, why? Just for caution's sake.

Okay so, very sorry for replying to you finally so late, finals came and I had to focus my time on studying and everything, so I kinda forgot about my computer for a bit. Again, great apologies, and hopefully you can still help me . So, I entered ipconfig and ipconfig /renew into cmd like you asked, and this is what it outputted. Entering "ipconfig": Windows IP Configuration Ethernet adapter Ethernet: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2601:648:8400:fad0:852e:8922:36a5:266 Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : 2601:648:8400:fad0:d566:370d:bf8b:bcf7 Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::852e:8922:36a5:266%5 Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address. . : 169.254.2.102 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : fe80::68ee:96ff:fed0:51a4%5 Tunnel adapter isatap.{B585E28B-14A8-46BC-AEE2-E4B189373905}: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Entering "ipconfig /renew"(it stopped for a few minutes with just a blinking underscore, then gave this when I tried to type some shit): Windows IP Configuration An error occurred while renewing interface Ethernet : unable to contact your DHCP server. Request has timed out. It does say it had an issue regarding the DHCP, like you said. What do you think? Again, sorry for the late reply.

I thought the problem would be with my motherboard. It was working without drivers on the first windows installation. But I'll try what you said and post the results anyways.

TLDR I built a new computer and installed windows 10, my motherboard didn't need lan drivers to connect to internet with ethernet cable. I formatted my drives and reinstalled windows a few times (for an unrelated reason), afterwards, it wouldn't connect without drivers like before. I installed drivers, still nothing. The ethernet icon in the taskbar has a warning sign, if I troubleshoot (see ** below for the errors it returns) 2wice back to back, it will give me different results each time, and doesn't fix the issue either way. I've rebooted my router, made sure I have the right drivers, wiped the drive and reinstalled windows, reset bios.... still nothing. I've just built a new pc, and got it all up and working and everything, booting into bios fine and all parts running good... So then I installed windows. It's windows 10 home 64 bit, and I got into it and everything, to which I saw that I didn't even need to install my motherboard (ASUS Z97-A)'s lan drivers as when I plugged in the ethernet cable it automatically connected. Although, I didn't go right ahead and start installing all other drivers and such, I actually ended up going through again and formatting my drives and reinstalling windows about 5 more times, due to a number of reasons, none very relevant. Anyways, when I was finally done, on this 5th time installing windows now, I went to plug in my ethernet cable, to find that my motherboard now did NOT automatically connect like before! So I just brushed it aside and installed the lan drivers, but for some reason, it still didn't connect. I've checked that the ethernet cable works, rebooted my router many times, scoured the mobo site and made sure the drivers I'm installing are correct, made sure the local area connection and ethernet is turned on and everything, turned my motherboard bios to default... I have no clue what the fuck to do. **For some reason, when I have the cable plugged in, my computer knows it's there, it's just that on the taskbar the ethernet icon has the warning sign on it. I right click and troubleshoot problems, and it delivers me no clear answer, sometimes it says it's fixed everything and the warning sign disappears, but I still can't connect, sometimes it returns some issue with the default gateway, sometimes it says there's a problem with the connection between the router/modem and my computer, sometimes it says ethernet doesn't have a valid ip configuration.... I've tried to fix each of these individual issues, to no avail. Even so, if I run the troubleshooter 2wice in a row, without changing a thing in between, it will produce different results! What is going on??? What do I do??? Please help!

TL;DR I want to get a tablet for my mom, but she would do reading and web browsing, video watching etc on it. What's the best tablet around 300 or less, where she can do those things, AND have a good reading experience, for at least a few hours, on it (not getting tired of holding it, eye strain, etc)? So, my mom's birthday is coming up soon and I want to get her a tablet. Thing is, I know she'd do a pretty good amount of reading on it, as well as other things (i.e. watching videos, movies, browsing web), and it seems unclear what the best tablet out there is, that can do both of these things well. Essentially something that can browse the web + watch videos and movies etc, as well as allow her to read on it for at least like a few hours without getting tired of holding it or strained eyes etc. Anything like that exist? If not, closest thing? Ideally I'd want something with quality like a kindle for the reading, although ofc those don't do anything else. Price limit is around 300 or so, I guess I could go higher if there's good reason. Any ideas? Thanks!

Okay! Awesome, I understand. So unless you'd recommend me to look for another motherboard that better satisfies my "best lga 1150 at price point" qualifier, then I'll probably just go ahead and pick up the $120 one. Many thanks for all your help.

Huh, I'm still confused what the extra $30 dollars is going to? Are you saying that, although the $120 one has usb 3.1 on board, it has 2.0 in addition to that, and the $150 one has the 3.1, but instead of the 2.0 slots as well, it just has more 3.1 slots? Like for example: $120 has: 2 on board 3.1 ports 4 on board 2.0 ports TOTAL: 6 ports $150 has: 6 on board 3.1 ports TOTAL: 6 ports (just random numbers for a simulatory example) And, to answer your questions: The processor I have is the i7-4790K. I do a good amount of gaming. Other than that, I do some music making (FL Studio 12), and mostly just normal browsing. Occasionally I'll do some photo or video editing but I'm not too concerned about that as I have access to other computers that are meant for that so if need be I could just use those for editing. EDIT: I want to add, mostly, I just want to know that I'm getting the best (or close to it) z97/lga1150 motherboard I can for this price point. That's the hitch up I'm having.

So on the first amazon listing you're paying $30 more just for a usb 3.1 add in card, in addition to the 3.1 on the io? I don't see any info about that on the page, but unless thats the case how many more ports do you even get? Is that worth it? Also, great thanks for your input about the actual motherboard, but I'm a little confused. Do you mean the motherboard doesn't support M.2 on PCI-E slots, meaning I would only be able to use my ssd on the sata express (at 10gb/s)? I thought all mobos with sata express support PCI-E for storage? And since you actually own one, it's probably best for me to ask you: Is it a good mobo for the 100-120 price point? I don't want to have to replace it in a couple years because of it performing badly or not being able to support any future upgrades. Think that's a reasonable requirement?

I'm trying to buy the Asus' Z97-A, but, for some reason it is listed on Amazon twice, and Newegg once, with each listing at a different price point and slightly varied specifications. wtf? Everything seems to mostly match up, all are by Asus, but for some reason the product descriptions/specifications seem to differ slightly, I've screenshotted and edited them all together here. Here are also all the raw links: Amazon ($150): https://www.amazon.com/Asus-DDR3-2600-1150-Motherboards/dp/B00K2MAU5Q Amazon ($120): https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-DDR3-Motherboards-USB-3-1/dp/B00TXBP1NS#Ask Newegg ($140): https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132510 What should I do? Why would this happen and which should I buy? Are they all actually the same?? Any help is appreciated. Thanks guys. (P.S. I'd also much appreciate opinions on the actual motherboard itself )