Hello, yesterday I built my first pc. Took me roughly 6 hours to become aquanted with its inner workings and got the Os installed and the graphics drivers and the motherboard drivers. Here is the build:
Case: Cooler Master CM Storm Stryker ATX Full Tower Case Black & White 9X5.25 8X3.5INT 13X2.5INT USB3.0
PSu: 750 Watt Bronze Power EVGA
MoBo: Gigabyte GA-Z87X-D3H
Processor: Intel i5 4670k
G-Card: EVGA Nvidia Geforce 760 GTX
Drives: 2TB Seagate & 120G Kingston SSD
These are the main components to my understanding, atleast for this troubpe shooting.
The Problem: The computer will not connect to the internet, it dosent recognize any network actually and gives no opportunity to even connect to one. When I go to the Device Manager screen theres no Network adapters listed at all even though the board comes with onboard ethernet. Iv checked several forums and downloaded the drivers for the adapters onto a stick ( LAN 8 ) when I attempted to load the drivers up it notified me that there are no recognizable adapters. Did I hook something up wrong? Missing a cable on the MoBo? Faulty MoBo? Hidden Bios option for networking thats been disabled?
Im really stuck here and have been combing the internet for a solution, unfortionatly im very inexperienced and its been a number of years since iv been out of school for electronics engineering, I desperatly need some assistance as I have exhausted all ideas and im sure google is tired of my misinterpreted searches. Please Help :, (