my desktop has been hardwired for about a year, i ran ethernet along the base molding up to my router in the other room
ever since i installed windows 10 on this computer, it randomly decides it's not connected to the internet annymore. doing the windows troubleshooting does nothing, it just says
- "Ethernet" does not have a valid IP configuration
- The default gateway is not available
the computer has been powered on for a whole of like twenty minutes and it did this. i was watching a youtube video and it shat itself, and now I have to restart it and it'll do the same thing again in another twenty minutes.
what the fuck is wrong with windows 10
this is the rare time I want someone to actually help troubleshoot, most of the time I don't because troubleshooting makes me want to slam both my heads in a door
but be patient with moo i have very little tolerance for computerb ullshit
all of the initial instructions i found online pointed to settings that don't exist for "power management in device manager don't let the network adapter be turned off"
the other thing i've found is "network reset" which i'm doing, and if that doesn't work i've found what i hope is the right driver from my motherboard's support page but they made a board revision at some point (in newer product photos the pci slot is blue. it's not on mine) so i'm slightly concerned about that
the network reset may have done something but it is too early to tell and i don't know how to reliably trigger a fault in my connection to prove it
