Second NIC pcie card issues

[steeno78]

So I wanted to put a faster network card into my pc. Used one card on one network and the faster card on another for gaming. The card I bought, when put into my machine doesnt register inside my pc (the lights all flash showing its doing something) but doesnt appear in device manager. I tested the slot with another wifi card I had laying around and it worked without a problem. I took the new NIC card and plugged it into my sons PC and it populated without a hitch in his setup.

Im completely stumped as to why it simply wont work. I tried a different PCIE slot but it has the same outcome.

My board is a Gigabyte x570 Aorus Elite, my sons is an Asus ROG Strix X570-f Gaming.

Anyone have any thoughts on what I could be doing wrong?

[tkitch]

Question:

What speed is your internet and LAN?  

A NIC that's stupidly faster than your internet and LAN will result in 0 actual changes.  

 

You've both got gigabit LAN on your builds, which is more than enough for any normal home internet, and network.  

[ArushM]

1 hour ago, steeno78 said:

Anyone have any thoughts on what I could be doing wrong?

Does it need drivers of some kind? Thats the only thing I could think of

[steeno78]

58 minutes ago, tkitch said:

Question:

What speed is your internet and LAN?  

A NIC that's stupidly faster than your internet and LAN will result in 0 actual changes.  

 

You've both got gigabit  on your builds, which is more than enough for any normal home internet, and network.  

yeah I wanted my gigabit nic for gaming and the second card to deal with in house lan file sharing and stuff  

[steeno78]

36 minutes ago, ArushM said:

Does it need drivers of some kind? Thats the only thing I could think of

it didnt need the drivers on the other board, plus device manager would have shown the device but with the yellow triangle warning, showing it needed driver. Its just strange as to why it doesnt show up at all

[jaslion]

Just now, steeno78 said:

yeah I wanted my gigabit nic for gaming and the second card to deal with in house lan file sharing and stuff  

Windows non server doing tbat on the same network? If so yeah thats just kind of sorta not gonna happen really. Its basically one or the other.

 

If ya start vming, non windows consumer, linux,... sure you can start splitting but also its just not going to matter.

 

 

[jaslion]

1 minute ago, steeno78 said:

it didnt need the drivers on the other board, plus device manager would have shown the device but with the yellow triangle warning, showing it needed driver. Its just strange as to why it doesnt show up at all

What other pcie/m.2 based hardware do you have and what slot is it in?

[tkitch]

5 minutes ago, steeno78 said:

yeah I wanted my gigabit nic for gaming and the second card to deal with in house lan file sharing and stuff  

unless you're trying to copy 500gb of data over the LAN at the same time as you're gaming...  that's not really an issue

[steeno78]

1 minute ago, jaslion said:

What other pcie/m.2 based hardware do you have and what slot is it in?

I have my GPU in my x16 slot and both my M.2 slots are populated with nvme drives

[steeno78]

why does it register both pcie nic card and the inbuilt nic on the ASUS board though and not on the Aorus?