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I bought a new SSD the other day to replace my old, shitty HDD, and I initially tried to clone my OS from HDD to SSD using Acronis, but it didn't like that, so instead I tried to clone the entire drive, planning on formatting the D : drive afterwards. It also didn't like that, got some weird boot errors and so I decided to instead just format the SSD and do a clean install of windows 10. This worked, and booted up a fresh OS etc., except my internet no longer worked. The computer is connected via ethernet and says it has internet access, but nothing loads. I tried to install network adapter drivers, but it told me I didn't have an Intel (r) adapter...so I installed my chipset drivers (will put specs etc at the end incase that helps) and that actually let me install the network adapter driver...great! Except not great. Now when I open my browser (I only have edge as I can't install chrome) it will load a search result after about a minute, but it is not able to load any websites. I can't click on any of the results, they just load endlessly until it says "cannot reach this page". Troubleshooting returns no problems, Intel's network adapter program returns no problems, I can ping my network and it all works, and the fact that it can produce search results seems to indicate that the internet is at least working....I thought maybe it was the browser, so I tried to open steam and it was not able to log in, couldn't connect to steam network. Is this a problem with drivers? My motherboard? The SSD? The HDD (internet also doesn't work on the HDD, maybe suggests it's not a problem with either SSD or HDD, not sure though)? The CPU? I have installed an re-installed the drivers so many times now. I really don't think it's a driver issue, despite that being the most common issue when this happens for people online. 

 

P.S. when I got those boot errors on SSD and HDD the thing that fixed it was formatting the EFI partition and then I followed some guide and did some bootrec stuff.

 

Please help, I really don't know what else I can try, thanks :((((

 

Specs -
Motherboard - H170 pro gaming from Asus
CPU - i5-6500
SSD - Crucial 1TB P1 M.2
HDD - Some 1TB WD thing, not exactly sure.
Connected via ethernet

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34 minutes ago, CryoNetworking said:

Do you have a separate ethernet card?

edit: or try a different storage device

My ethernet card is attached to the motherboard, don't have any sort of PCIe replacement. 

 

I can boot from the SSD or my HDD, but the internet doesn't work on either, reaaallly not sure what to do.

 

Thanks for the reply though.

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