Must reinstall NIC and USB drivers after every reboot  

Hi guys,

firstly, I'm running a gigabyte P35 motherboard with a quad core processor and 2 gigs of ram and an Intel chip-set etc. As for hardware, everything is ok and I've had no problems up until now.

About 4 days ago, after rebooting my pc, I noticed firstly that my internet was not working. My pc was telling me that there was no network available to connect to. I did the usual things like power off my router, unplug the ethernet cable from the pc, restart the pc etc, nothing worked. I then thought that perhaps there was a driver problem. I uninstalled my router, and reinstalled the driver again. Lo and behold, it was working. However I then noticed under my USB devices in device manager that they all had the little yellow " ! " mark and none were working. I had to uninstall and reinstall all those drivers again, same as with the NIC, and they worked.

I had hoped that this was the end of that bizarre incident but that was not the case. After a reboot, the same thing happened again. Since that time, every reboot has yielded the same results and it is a real pain in the ass to have to reinstall everything again, and again, and again.

I have no idea what the problem could be as I had no updated anything or installed anything new for this to happen. I've been reading through these forums and noticed one person having a similar USB problem but I believe mine may be a little bit different so any light that could be shed on this would be more than appreciated.

Thanks guys

Hi Adrian,

thanks for the warm welcome and the advice.
I have updated my motherboard, the NIC and the bios but it still hasn't fixed my problem. I went into the bios and checked the USB status and everything should be working, but for some reason isn't

Good morning Adrian,

I gave the regedit technique a go but it was to no-avail I'm afraid.
I'm running AVG anti-virus but there's no firewall component or anything of the sort other than the standard one that comes with windows.

It's just odd that everything was fine prior to a reboot and then out of nowhere this happened. I seem to be at a loss as I'm still unable to uncover a solution to this issue.

Adrian my man!!

I just went through the installed updates for the past few months and uninstalled the majority of them. I then rebooted my pc and funnily enough, everything is working again. So it would seem that one of these updates was responsible for the error.

Now it's just a matter of finding out which one it was so that I don't re-install the bloody thing again >_<

michael2016 said:

Adrian my man!!

I just went through the installed updates for the past few months and uninstalled the majority of them. I then rebooted my pc and funnily enough, everything is working again. So it would seem that one of these updates was responsible for the error.

Now it's just a matter of finding out which one it was so that I don't re-install the bloody thing again >_<

michael2016
Did you work out what update caused your issue, I just did a clean install of 7 64bit and USB dies everytime i reboot. think it could be related to the Realtek Network drivers?