Windows 10: Can't connect to internet after installing Creators Update

@yuljk Thanks for letting us know about workaround.

hope it will be of any help to all the users affected...

 

Here's what some wag posted on woody's site:

I found the REAL culprit for the Windows 10 Creators Update hangup/freezes.
Turn’s out my mom’s Dell Inspiron laptop is using an internal Broadcom 440x 10/100 integrated controller device. I disable (turn off) this device in the Dell laptop BIOS setup (aka. the internal NIC device), save changes and now the Windows 10 v1703 Creators Update release works as expected. The Intel 5100 WiFi adapter was not the cause of the problem.

And the worst part is, Windows 10 (including the v1703 release) has a built-in drivers for the Broadcom 440x Integrated NIC adapter device, which was causing the Windows 10 networking components & services to hang/freeze with this device. The “lockups” with the Broadcom 440x Ethernet/LAN adapter don’t occur with the Anniversary update and older builds of Windows 10; just only happening with the Creators Update.

In short> Broadcom 440x 100/Integrated Ethernet/LAN Controller Network Adapter + Windows 10 v1703 Creators Update = CATASTROPHE!



This BIOS fix didn't work on ny desktop, but it was worth a try.

Hopefully they'll have a patch for this soon.