Malfunction everywhere

[Animerebel48]

So, I built my rig going on 4 years ago and has ran fine until recently. 

Recently it's been lagging, freezing,and giving me "unresponsive" messages. I have cloned the drive to a new one, no change, replaced RAM and GPU, no change. And now it keeps giving me a "There might be a problem with the ethernet driver" tried all fixes but doesn't work. Reinstalled my wifi card and it gave the same message 2 minutes after connecting to the router. 

Current machine is a MSI Z370 Sli Plus, I5-8400, 16gb Balliistix RAM, MSI 1650 gpu, and a 4tb Baracuda hdd with 32gb Intel Optane (Optane currently disabled).

[Poinkachu]

12 minutes ago, Animerebel48 said:

So, I built my rig going on 4 years ago and has ran fine until recently. 

Recently it's been lagging, freezing,and giving me "unresponsive" messages. I have cloned the drive to a new one, no change, replaced RAM and GPU, no change. And now it keeps giving me a "There might be a problem with the ethernet driver" tried all fixes but doesn't work. Reinstalled my wifi card and it gave the same message 2 minutes after connecting to the router. 

Current machine is a MSI Z370 Sli Plus, I5-8400, 16gb Balliistix RAM, MSI 1650 gpu, and a 4tb Baracuda hdd with 32gb Intel Optane (Optane currently disabled).

Have you tried a clean reinstall of windows ?

[Animerebel48]

I have tried manually installing network drivers, and get a message saying no supported hardware found. Mind you, this is for the on-board ethernet from the manufacturer site. 

A clean install would mean 3 months of TRYING to get everything reinstalled. I have games that are modded, and Skyrim mods need to be installed in specific order. I would loose a ton of progress in my games, and sanity trying to set everything fixed with a hour a day to work on it. 

[Robchil]

20 minutes ago, Animerebel48 said:

I have tried manually installing network drivers, and get a message saying no supported hardware found. Mind you, this is for the on-board ethernet from the manufacturer site. 

A clean install would mean 3 months of TRYING to get everything reinstalled. I have games that are modded, and Skyrim mods need to be installed in specific order. I would loose a ton of progress in my games, and sanity trying to set everything fixed with a hour a day to work on it. 

sounds like a mainboard issue. since ethernet is died on it. 

 

[Renegade042]

What if you find/buy a spare drive to install windows on and then see if the problem persists.

 

[Animerebel48]

3 minutes ago, Robchil said:

sounds like a mainboard issue. since ethernet is died on it. 

 

That's my thought as well. I have replaced the hdd, memory, and gpu yet it still acting up. And now the on-board ethernet and a wifi card both come up as not recognized as being there..

Also, the cpu spends a lot of time at 100% usage even though it's not running a lot of background processes and only 1 or 2 programs. 

[Animerebel48]

6 minutes ago, Renegade042 said:

What if you find/buy a spare drive to install windows on and then see if the problem persists.

 

Not a drive issue since it's done it with not one but two new drives.

[Animerebel48]

8 minutes ago, Renegade042 said:

What if you find/buy a spare drive to install windows on and then see if the problem persists.

 

Might be able to dump the files from the old 2tb I replaced due to running out of space. Have to see how much space needed so I can see if I have room on one of my portable drives. 

[Animerebel48]

Okay, did a test clean install on a old drive to see if network drivers would work, and they did. So some how, my OS and drivers have been borked when I cloned the drive to a larger one. Trying to get the network working again so when I get my new pc built, I can just migrate my files and applications over to it.