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If I plug in my D hard drive, I lose my network?!?!
Folks,
Here's the background:
Computer has an Asus M5A88-M motherboard, with an AMD FX-8350 cpu. It had been running Win7/64. It has two harddrives, an SSD Samsung 850 evo (C drive) and a WD Black spinner (D drive). In Win7 I was unable to get the SSD into AHCI mode. (The mobo has Sata ports 1-4 as either IDE or AHCI or RAID, and ports 5-6 as IDE. I have Bluray ODD in port 6.)
I decided to upgrade to Win 10. Prior to the upgrade, I disconnected the D drive, which shouldn't have anything on it but games and some personal docs and pics. I performed the upgrade with just C connected.
All was good.
I successfully changed my C drive to AHCI mode. Rebooted several times. All was still good.
By "all is good", I mean EVERYTHING seemed good, and the internet/networking worked.
This morning, I decided to plug in the D drive back into SATA port 2. Upon booting, there was a yellow exclamation symbol over the network connection near the task tray and I had no network at all. I used a usb stick to upload the latest Win10 Network driver for the mobo's Realtek 8111E network interface. The yellow error symbol remained.
I tried various troubleshooting techniques (safe boot with network, limited services, etc.) and nothing changed.
The network switch shows connectivity and the port on the rear of the computer shows a solid green light and flashing yellow light. That indicates Gigabit speed connection and data input/output. This is with the yellow exclamation symbol and no network functionality
I did notice that the network symbol seems good at first during bootup. Then, as the Win10 bootup music fades, the yellow icon appears.
If I disconnect the D drive from Sata 2, I regain full network functionality.
(D has been on Sata 2 (in IDE not the current AHCI) for about 3 years with no issues.)
- Is there a SATA/NIC interference issue?
- Is there some file on D which interferes with Win10's networking?
- Is it a problem because D had been IDE and is now being accessed as AHCI (through BIOS setting)?
Thanks,
Ken