Lan chip can't locate drivers.

LameO · January 21, 2022

Just got back some old tech for my brother-in-law I let him use for a few years. Decided I'm going to make a server out of it for my friend and I to play Minecraft, ark, Gmod, and some other only stuff on.

i7-3770k on water

ASRock Z77 fatal1tly professional (bios rev1.7)

Corsair vengeance ddr3 1333mhz 16gb

Radeon 580 8gb

1Tb Sandisk ssd

750 watt Corsair PSU

Used Case

Got a clean boot and fresh install of window 10 (version 21h2) but when I got to the windows set up screen I didn't have internet, cable is good, and the activity lights lit up. Bypassed it and did a no internet install no issue. But it looks like windows cant find drivers for the Broadcom BCM57781 lan hardware. I checked ASRock's website and they don't have win 10 drivers posted, 7 & 8.1 but no 10. Put in a ticket to talk to someone at ASRock but all I've been getting for the last 2 days is repetitive 1 one sentence responses that don't answer the questions I'm asking.

Does anyone know if broadcom still supports this hardware? Or has win 10 driver for these chips it seem dumb to me that a top of the line motherboard was unable to function on a new Win os 3 years after it launched.

I thought maybe the chip was fried, but it shows up in device manager as an unknown needing drivers.

And yes I know I could just go with an add in card. That's what Pablo the ASRock rep has said three times but I want the board like it should.

Thank you too anyone taking the time to read this,

and sorry for any spelling mistakes.