Trouble
Noob Whisperer
I can certainly appreciate the frustration.
If you want to get the Wired Connection working, we can try that now because it may be an issue with speed and duplex, this has been cropping up a lot lately with certain Gigabit cards on Windows 7, with certain routers.
So if the card is connected with a cat 5 cable to the router then
type ncpa.cpl into the search box and hit enter
select then right click on the wired card and choose properties
Click the Configure Button
In the left column look for something called speed and duplex
Select it and on the right side select the drop down arrow and choose 100 half
OK your way back out of there and reboot.
See if that gets the wired connection up and running.
If you want to get the Wired Connection working, we can try that now because it may be an issue with speed and duplex, this has been cropping up a lot lately with certain Gigabit cards on Windows 7, with certain routers.
So if the card is connected with a cat 5 cable to the router then
type ncpa.cpl into the search box and hit enter
select then right click on the wired card and choose properties
Click the Configure Button
In the left column look for something called speed and duplex
Select it and on the right side select the drop down arrow and choose 100 half
OK your way back out of there and reboot.
See if that gets the wired connection up and running.