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LAN connection (driver) lost
Yeah so today suddenly out of the blue I lost my LAN connection (network and sharing center says no connections are available). I am saying out of the blue not as a novice (which i probably am) but because it was actually OUT OF THE BLUE. AFAIK, I have not done any suspicious downloads at all and no other such risky activity. And the worst thing is I can't fix it. OK as far as the problem goes, normal troubleshooting says that either my lan chord is broken or the network driver is faulty. I had the drivers in my disks and I tried installing it, in vain. The exact error it gave was something like "No ethernet cable found, if you have put your pc in deep sleep mode then remove it". I tried restoring my pc but the only available restore points were today itself, and one of them was 10 minutes ago (suspicious) I still tried to restore it but to no avail. I went into the device manager and surprisingly the ethernet driver was missing. So now I am clueless as to what to do. Please help.