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Hi Centaur,
1. It was set to "manual" but I selected "start" and then "stop" just to be sure.
2. I don't know what the confusion is about! There was an additional intel pro 100 card that I removed as part of the troubleshooting, but there is only one ethernet jack now on the mobo. I tried to run the realtek driver installation but the asussetup.exe program said there was no realtek driver installed. So I have no idea what's going on there.
3. Installed.
4. I had tried the readiness tool before but it failed. I have downloaded from your link and right now it is "searching for updates on this computer". I'll report back when it's done.
Thanks for helping!