Dead Ethernet...... what was wrong with it?

Dead Ethernet...... what was wrong with it?


I had the strangest thing that happened to me. I uninstalled the drivers for on motherboard's Ethernet and this happened. I had to troubleshoot, check cables, reinstalled the latest drivers and cleared the cmos. It appeared the driver installed fine but it wouldn't light up the ethernet port as if it was dead? At the bottom was the error I found in the device log. Nothing worked. I had to do a system restore to get it back up. Any ideas what happened?


Mobo: Biostar 970


Device PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_230E1565&REV_07\4&2057c65&0&00AA had a problem starting.


Driver Name: oem66.inf
Class Guid: {4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}
Service: rt640x64
Lower Filters:
Upper Filters:
Problem: 0x15
Problem Status: 0xC0

Problem: 0x15 is 'device not ready' normally , often an issue with corrupt/incorrect drivers.

Wullail said:

Problem: 0x15 is 'device not ready' normally , often an issue with corrupt/incorrect drivers.

That's what I thought too when I googled it but I downloaded the drivers from the site and the drivers in the device manager says it's working properly and it didn't look like anything was wrong with it...

One thing for sure it must've been something with the drivers because when I did a system restore it's back and running. Anyone else have any ideas?