Alright. You said you used that other driver, and now it works fine. I am having the exact same problem you were having... Even with a gigabyte! Anywho, when I try to load that driver to use it for the hardware, a message comes up, but goes away just as fast, and then it ask me again to select another driver, or use the default ( RTL8169 ) What can I do to perhaps force it to use that driver?... It won't let me choose anything other than the default.