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I was able to make the ownership changes in the registry but when I got to DCOM Config I seem not to have permission to change anything in security, even though I am administrator on this laptop. I am the only user and I'm the administrator. If I get that far and then can't make the changes to...

The rest of my computer is working really well and I don't want to mess it up, booting from a Linux CD won't do anything to my Windows setup, right? Edited to add - I came up and woke up the computer and saw that it was connected via the Ethernet cable! So it kind of woke up and worked, but in...

Just an update to this...I plugged the cable into my work laptop and it fired right up and made a connection... I played a lot with my settings and with assigning some things manually instead of being detected automatically, and ended up with an ipconfig that looks like this between my two...

Yes I believe so, but since it has PCI in the name I thought I should verify that this wouldn't be an issue... I suppose onboard lan could have gotten disabled somehow and I'd need to re-enable. There was a thing with the touchpad on my daughter's old Toshiba that kept getting disabled and...

Do you mind my asking one last question about this? I ran across a few places online where people said they had to go into the BIOS and disable the onboard LAN to get their PCI adapter to work. Now, I used to have a computer with a bona fide PCI LAN card I plugged into the slot; I know that...

I had a very smooth clean install, so now I have a nice laptop booting UEFI and running Windows 8.1. The ethernet card didn't come back to life, so I'm assuming at this point I have a hardware failure and will try a USB ethernet adapter just so I have a wired connection available when necessary...

Yes, from the ISO I downloaded. I went back and made sure of my settings and redid it, so that is what I have. I am getting my 1TB external drive tomorrow to take an image, then I guess I'll pull the trigger! I followed the tutorial settings that said to choose GPT and FAT32. I'm going to...

I am getting dizzy clicking through to all the tutorials embedded within tutorials! I downloaded my ISO image and made a bootable USB with Rufus - didn't know whether to choose NTFS or FAT32 so I chose NTFS and then I found a tutorial 2 levels down that said to choose FAT32. Do I need to do it...

You know, I can't remember! Since I've decided I'm going to do a clean 8.1 install if possible, I'm struggling less with this. I do have wifi so I'm not helpless - but it BUGS ME! I appreciate your help very much. I'm working on getting my Win 8.1 bootable USB ready and hope I can do this...

I am downloading the Win 8.1 ISO now. I have what I believe is a UEFI capable bios (AMI Bios P09ABI) and a Samsung NP550P5C. The computer was originally sold with Windows 7 but came to me with Windows 8 on it from Best Buy, put on by (ick) the Geek Squad refurbishers. Since I got a Win 8...

First one gave me error 6800 the function attempted to use a name that is reserved for use by another transaction. Should I run it again straight away or proceed to the other two first?

Thanks... I'm thinking to do that. Should I also try what you advised the Windows 8.1 guy on the other thread with the Dism commands? Will I be able to go to UEFI at the same time as I do the clean install?

In the log on my router I see this over and over and over and over and over... I don't know what it means... maybe nothing except that the behavior I'm observing is in fact occurring... 06/27/2015 12:44:57 PM kernel eth1 Link UP 10 mbps full duplex 06/27/2015 12:44:57 PM kernel br0...

Just found someone right here on this forum with the same exact ethernet adaptor I have, on Windows 8.1, having the same problem. What is going on????

Just wanted to say, I'm having the SAME PROBLEM with the SAME EXACT ethernet card (Realtek PCIe). My wifi is fine, I cannot get a wired connection, my ipconfig numbers look just like yours. I am running Windows 8, and Online Armor firewall and Avast antivirus. I'm going to follow this thread...

Thanks, I may try the full delete. I'm not on Windows 8.1 because about 18 months ago, half a year after getting this computer, I accepted Windows 8.1 and it was such a complete disaster that I had to do a clean reinstall of Windows 8 from a recovery disk to get the computer to even boot again...

OK tried all of this; ipconfig for my two devices now looks like this, but still I have an unidentified network. Wireless adapter continues to work great. It says DHCP enabled: NO which looks WRONG to me... Oh, I see, because I chose an IPv4 address. Well. See anything else that looks...

Safe Mode with Networking: Same exact status with respect to the ethernet card. I was going to try the suggestion from post #15 but if I choose the check box that opens up the default gateway box for entry, it requires me to specify my DNS servers, and I don't know what to put there. I tried...

I did some of these things and it didn't work; I will try again. I should add: I use Online Armor free firewall and Avast free antivirus, and I run a malware scan a couple of times a week with Emsisoft Antimalware....Malwarebytes also told me I was clean when I ran it yesterday. So I don't...

Have not booted in Safe Mode yet. I can try that this weekend. I just updated my post above to add a suggestion from that other forum that I did not try, I wonder if I should.