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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: dirtydan on July 07, 2013, 09:35:48 pm

Title: Onboard Ethernet vanished
Post by: dirtydan on July 07, 2013, 09:35:48 pm

There was a lightning strike last week close by, ever since my on board Ethernet has vanished from device manager. Drivers won't install. The orange light on the port is solid. Could the port have got fried somehow?

I plugged a card in and I'm fine now.

Title: Re: Onboard Ethernet vanished
Post by: autotech on July 08, 2013, 03:28:08 am

Have seen this happen alot. Use the card your port is gone.

Title: Re: Onboard Ethernet vanished
Post by: Vezina on July 09, 2013, 06:51:14 pm

You should always turn off the PC and remove the LAN cable when storms kick in.Sometimes this storms kill the PSU-s too ,so remove the cable from the outlet as well.

Title: Re: Onboard Ethernet vanished
Post by: dirtydan on July 10, 2013, 07:31:10 am

I have a quality surge protector but nothing for the Ethernet cable.
Never heard of a surge going through my cable modem

That was a flash/bang quick, phone lines were all fried too.

Title: Re: Onboard Ethernet vanished
Post by: sievebrain on August 29, 2013, 12:21:59 pm

I lost a modem once a couple of years ago in a sudden storm. A brilliant white flash and bang from behind the desk. Fortunately I had a spare modem. So now when a storm approaches I disconnect the data cable from the wall and turn the modem off. In turn that protects the ethernet connection.
sievebrain