Pcie lan problem

[personallyimdumb]

A while ago i got this pcie lan card to go in my pc because downloads were slow. I put it in everything was fine, everytime i booted up my pc though, i noticed something. I wasnt getting internet when i turned on my pc. Quite shortly, i found out a solution to this problem. I had to take it out and put it back in before i turn on my computer each and every time. This started to get annoying as you could imagine so, i moved it to the pcie 16x slot on my mobo. Then, it worked fine but now its playing up again and its the same problem. I made a post exaclty like this maybe earlier this year or late last year and people were saying to update bios and stuff so i did. Still not working. Im looking on some advice on what to do. 

 

Motherboard: Msi B350 PC mate.

500W psu

windows 10 home 

no overclocking 

 

Thats it. If you need more info just ask!

[Needfuldoer]

Is something wrong with your motherboard's built-in Ethernet?

 

A new NIC shouldn't affect your download speeds unless your onboard NIC is only Fast Ethernet and your Internet connection speed is greater than 100Mb/sec.

[personallyimdumb]

4 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

Is something wrong with your motherboard's built-in Ethernet?

 

A new NIC shouldn't affect your download speeds unless your onboard NIC is only Fast Ethernet and your Internet connection speed is greater than 100Mb/sec.

i mean i guess i could try my mb's ethernet, i did before cant remember what was wrong tho, ill test it and say 

[personallyimdumb]

15 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

Is something wrong with your motherboard's built-in Ethernet?

 

A new NIC shouldn't affect your download speeds unless your onboard NIC is only Fast Ethernet and your Internet connection speed is greater than 100Mb/sec.

yeah so its perfectly fine, actually seems to do better, idk why i didnt just use the mb ethernet. Was the nic a waste of 20£?

 

[Needfuldoer]

3 minutes ago, callmebrightt said:

Was the nic a waste of 20£?

Looks like it was.

[personallyimdumb]

4 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

Looks like it was.

thank you eso much lol

[Felixmine]

I agree with Needfuldoer here, that card was probably a waste of money.

However, it still should get picked up without a reseat. See if it gets detected in the BIOS when it's not showing up in Windows.
If you can see a PCIE device in your bios that isn't your GPU you don't get internet, It's probably just a driver issue.

Also, see if the little lights (if it has some) on the card light up or blink when you have a network cable plugged in.

[personallyimdumb]

17 hours ago, Felixmine said:

I agree with Needfuldoer here, that card was probably a waste of money.

However, it still should get picked up without a reseat. See if it gets detected in the BIOS when it's not showing up in Windows.
If you can see a PCIE device in your bios that isn't your GPU you don't get internet, It's probably just a driver issue.

Also, see if the little lights (if it has some) on the card light up or blink when you have a network cable plugged in.

yeah its got a light see the problem is, when pc is off, the lights should be off, except sometimes, they arent so idk why, ill try look now with what you said thank you

 

[personallyimdumb]

17 hours ago, Felixmine said:

I agree with Needfuldoer here, that card was probably a waste of money.

However, it still should get picked up without a reseat. See if it gets detected in the BIOS when it's not showing up in Windows.
If you can see a PCIE device in your bios that isn't your GPU you don't get internet, It's probably just a driver issue.

Also, see if the little lights (if it has some) on the card light up or blink when you have a network cable plugged in.

thank you, i found out through the msi board explorer thing that its not being read when in the pcie 1x slot sometimes, the pcie 16x slot is fine though i think, im just gonna stick to my mb lan thank you!!!!