I've had a few problems with my LAN adapter (Realtek Gaming 2.5GbE Family Controller) not loading and not being present in device manager. My motherboard is a Gigabyte Aorus Elite B650 AX Ice and until recently ran perfectly. It started booting and not showing the ethernet LAN adapter in Device Manager and the adapter was not functioning. To cut a long story short I had to disable secure boot for the adapter to be recognised on startup. If there is somebody else with this problem it might be the workaround. I rather hope Gigabyte will sort out the conflict but it's not the latest motherboard so who knows?
Edit for once it doesn't, at face value, seem to be a windows problem.
Edit for once it doesn't, at face value, seem to be a windows problem.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 11 Pro 25H2 26200.8457
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Home built
- CPU
- Ryzen 5 7600
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte B650M Aorus Elite AX Ice
- Memory
- 32 Gb DDR5 6000Hz Corsair Vengeance
- Graphics Card(s)
- Sapphire Pulse RX 7600
- Sound Card
- Internal Realtek
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Samsung 32" Odyssey G5 G50D QHD
- Screen Resolution
- 2560 x 1440
- Hard Drives
- WD Black SN 770 1Tb; SanDisk SDSSDA240G ; Seagate 2Tb HDD
- PSU
- MSI MAG A750GL
- Case
- Enermax Marbleshell MS21
- Cooling
- Thermaltake Peerless Assassin 120 White ARGB, 3 x 120 intake, 1 x 120 exhaust
- Keyboard
- Aukey KM-G12
- Mouse
- Razer Basilisk v3 Pro 35K
- Internet Speed
- 1 Gb/s up & 800 Mb/s down
- Browser
- Brave / Edge
- Antivirus
- Windows / Malwarebytes




