I have an old Pipo mini-pc I play with from time to time. It is running the free version of Win 8.1 that came with these kinds of machines. Within its limits, it has always worked fine.Today I was running some checks on it and suddenly, for no reason I can discern, the LAN connection stopped working after a reboot. Up to that point there had never been any kind of issue. Now Windows can't see it for some reason. I cannot think of anything that changed or would have affected it. It worked until it didn't.I have tried everything I can think of, including changing the cable. I can see from the LEDs that the port sees it when it is plugged in, but Windows insists it is not there. I took a look with Device Manager and there are a whole lot of WAN Miniport devices, as well as a couple of Bluetooth ones and a Realtek Wireless LAN device, but nothing for wired. I have looked on-line for Realtek LAN drivers, but there are a lot of them and I don't know how to pick out the one I might need. Windows says there is no device present, so I can't update it. Naturally the LAN port could have just suddenly failed, but that kind of thing stretches my credulity, especially when Windows is notorious for these kinds of faults. I am wondering if anyone might have ideas about this.Wi-fi works fine but I would really like to get the Ethernet working again.
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