DHCP Error on 2.5 gig Gigabyte B550i

[cluelessgenius]

so i just gt this board and installed all the drivers but im stil having issues with the networking:

 

1. the wifi needs to be deactivated and reactivad after every reboot for it to work (yellow triangle in device manager ..idk)

 

2. and the 2.5 gig realtek port (device manager looks normal) gets an ip from the 169.254.x.x range which google told me is a dhcp error but idk where to go from there. read that a lot of people have issues with their 2.5 gig ports though 

 

so im asking for help, thanks guys

[whispous]

With the WiFi, have you insatalled the drivers from the manufacturer website or just allowed Windows to find and install drivers?

[cluelessgenius]

6 minutes ago, whispous said:

With the WiFi, have you insatalled the drivers from the manufacturer website or just allowed Windows to find and install drivers?

gigabytes site. since i had no network at all after mobo install. i had to get all the drivers on another system and install it offline. 

[whispous]

1 minute ago, cluelessgenius said:

gigabytes site. since i had no network at all after mobo install. i had to get all the drivers on another system and install it offline. 

And, silly question, but is Windows fully updated? And i really do mean FULLY UPDATED. Push it to check for updates until it definitely cannot find any more.

[cluelessgenius]

Just now, whispous said:

And, silly question, but is Windows fully updated? And i really do mean FULLY UPDATED. Push it to check for updates until it definitely cannot find any more.

i mean i could check if theres any optionals but i think so. ran for a week or so now with lan via usb-hub ethernet jack since the onboard isnt working and im not restarting the wifi every time

[cluelessgenius]

10 hours ago, whispous said:

And, silly question, but is Windows fully updated? And i really do mean FULLY UPDATED. Push it to check for updates until it definitely cannot find any more.

ok so no more updates. what now

 

[whispous]

7 minutes ago, cluelessgenius said:

ok so no more updates. what now

 

Well i'm guessing this didn't help in this case?

[cluelessgenius]

10 minutes ago, whispous said:

Well i'm guessing this didn't help in this case?

nope

 

[cluelessgenius]

ok for anyone interested i fixed it.

what ended up working for me is going to device manager, then update driver, then select manually and select a driver from list, then i choose the very generic sounding pcie ethernet driver instead of all the once labeled gaming family something and it works perfectly now

[Alex Atkin UK]

8 hours ago, cluelessgenius said:

ok for anyone interested i fixed it.

what ended up working for me is going to device manager, then update driver, then select manually and select a driver from list, then i choose the very generic sounding pcie ethernet driver instead of all the once labeled gaming family something and it works perfectly now

I'd try the latest Realtek chipset driver personally, it might be newer than the motherboard manufacturer version.  Using generic will lose the hardware offloading features which is probably not the end of the world but ideally you want to keep them for CPU efficiency.

[cluelessgenius]

2 hours ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

I'd try the latest Realtek chipset driver personally, it might be newer than the motherboard manufacturer version.  Using generic will lose the hardware offloading features which is probably not the end of the world but ideally you want to keep them for CPU efficiency.

tried that. directly from realteks site. the installer from gigabyte doesnt work anyway. it starts loading and then just dissappears and the driver version number stays the same. run as admin didnt help with that either. so i installed the realtek driver. installation works but i still got a 169.254 ip suggesting dhcp error. ich cleared the dns/dhcp cache on my router, did a dns flush on the system but nothing. of couree id prefer the "correct" driver but id also prefer to have working lan connection at all

[Alex Atkin UK]

48 minutes ago, cluelessgenius said:

tried that. directly from realteks site. the installer from gigabyte doesnt work anyway. it starts loading and then just dissappears and the driver version number stays the same. run as admin didnt help with that either. so i installed the realtek driver. installation works but i still got a 169.254 ip suggesting dhcp error. ich cleared the dns/dhcp cache on my router, did a dns flush on the system but nothing. of couree id prefer the "correct" driver but id also prefer to have working lan connection at all

That's really weird, you'd kinda expect if it was defective the generic driver wouldn't work either.  In fact I wasn't aware the generic driver worked on anything but the USB versions, as there's a USB Ethernet standard there.

[cluelessgenius]

alright so now i reinstalled the driver and tried a bunch od stuff and it works fine under the generic 2.5gig gaming family driver BUT especially right after booting it pops up a virtual drive which looks like it wants me to intall drivers from but before i can click on it it dissapears again and i get that device connected and device disconnected windows sound a coupe of times and its really annoying