Windows 10: Tried to update NIC driver to Win 10 driver now all NICs are missing

I have an ASUS P9X79pro with Win 10 ultimate? that was upgraded from Win 8. I have a multi boot system with old versions like Win 7, Win 8, etc.

I have been noticing that my Giga network will sometime reset from 1000 to 100 so decided to upgrade the drive to the Win 10, 64bit driver. The installation failed and I don’t recall what the issue was. Sorry, I didn’t expect to be in this much trouble so I just went ahead to fix the problem

The status now is that all NICs that I have or add to the system shows up nicely in the device manager under network adapters but when I look at the Network and Sharing Center, there are no networks.

I have deleted all the network adapters, rebooted and the devices are repopulated in device manager but no networks are available in the Network and Sharing Center.

I have tried adding various other network adapters like 2 USB Giga Ethernet adapters and 3 different WiFi USB devices. 4 of them are new, Win 10 compatible devices. They all show up in device manager and nothing in Network and Sharing Center.

Basically, it sees the network adapters in device manager but the Network and Sharing Center says I don’t have any devices.

I tried to restore to before the diver update but I don’t have a restoration point. I also don’t have a backup to restore.

It looks like I need to remove all network software from Win 10 and reinstall it.

Any ideas how to fix this?

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Can't connect to corp network after upgrade to Win 10

Find the NIC manufacture and go to their website and download latest win 10 driver for your NIC model. This fixed my issues.

 

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I installed the win 8.1 drivers from Acer support site (Acer V3-551g-x419) Drivers installed for BlueTooth, nic and wireless. Nic and wireless still did not work. Uninstalled nic and wireless from device manager, scanned for changes and now both work
fine. Hope this is helpful for others.

 

What do you mean that all Nic's are missing? How many Wifi Adapters and Network cards do you have installed? If you are trying to use Hyper-V, that can get screwed up also if you tried to make changes.

You need to use the drivers that ASUS has for your motherboard.

 

Device manager shows 5 network devices




Network and sharing shows no devices









This occurred when I deleted the old drivers to install the Asus network drivers. Now the Asus install software says that there are no network adapters.

How can I get Windows to recognize the installed adapters?

 

Look at the motherboard info at Asus's support website for that motherboard. If you built the system or had someone build it for you, you would know that there is one onboard Ethernet and one Bluetooth adapter onboard. Running multi-boot systems will screw things up. It is easier to keep the older OS's as a Virtual Machine or on another drive that you can choose from Boot Option.

Any changes you make with one OS can screw up the other OS's.

 

Did you try Settings>Network and Int.>Status> and at the bottom Network Reset ? and or the Network Troubleshooter on the same page

Did you check in the Bios everything is still enabled ? .......I guess it's alright if seen in DM though....

 

I tried that but there are no networks to reset.





I need to figure out why the NICs are in the device manager under network adapters but when I look at the Network and Sharing Center, there are no networks.

 

It's a strange one for sure , one I have not seen , but I don't think you will see a Network in NSC , if it is not connected to anything.

Did you remove the Chipset Driver or anything Else ? any other errors or exclamation Marks in DM ?

Did you enable/disable the Adaptor in DM and see if it will renew it's IP address ?

Did you try ipconfig /all at a command Prompt ?

Does you Router "See" the Computer on Ethernet or Wifi ?

Are you on the Latest win10 ? just curious as you settings windows looks different but that maybe due to having no connections.

It's almost like it thinks it is a laptop and Airplane Mode has got switched on somehow.....


I assume since you can Dual boot that everything is working in Win7 or 8 ?

 

another thought ... You didn't uninstall the Network protocols instead of the Adapters did you ?

Ie if you go the Properties of the Adaptor ..... you have TCP/IPV4 ,IPV6,Client for Microsoft Networks ,File and Printer Sharing etc ?

if not .............
To run the Network troubleshooter

• In the search box on the taskbar, type Network troubleshooter, and then select Identify and repair network problems from the list of results.
• Follow the steps in the troubleshooter and see if that fixes the problem.

If that doesn’t fix your connection problem, try these things:

• Reset the TCP/IP stack
• Release the IP address
• Renew the IP address
• Flush and reset the DNS client resolver cache

To run these networking commands in a command prompt window

• In the search box on the taskbar, type Command prompt, press and hold (or right-click) Command prompt, and then select Run as administrator > Yes.
• At the command prompt, run the following commands in the listed order, and then check to see if that fixes your connection problem:
  • Type netsh winsock reset and press Enter.
  • Type netsh int ip reset and press Enter.
  • Type ipconfig /release and press Enter.
  • Type ipconfig /renew and press Enter.
  • Type ipconfig /flushdns and press Enter.

KB

 

And one more for today ......

do you have a 3rd Party Firewall or possibly Antivirus like Eset perhaps , which might be blocking Connections?

KB

 

See my post and your post in Device Manager. Disregard about going into System, since that is not how you will fix this. I have already stated that all that you need to know.

 

I saw it and it does not solve the problem. If I remove all other devices and only leave the C drive in the system, I have the same issues.

 

The C drive has nothing to do with this. You have an onboard NIC and an onboard Bluetooth as Asus's website shows. Everything you need for information on that motherboard is on their website. The USB adapter for Wifi has nothing to do with this, nor does the second Intel NIC card. It is a driver problem that was caused when you removed the device and drivers. If you had someone build the system for you, they can help get it up and running again and show you how to fix it if it happens again.

 

you told him it was cos of his dual boot , and I don't think it is , in fact the Nics should still work in the other OS's if it is a driver Fault in Win10.

The Drivers are installed it seems since DM sees them all ,which is why I thought it maye a protocol issue, ie they are missing or something.






KB