Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

having a ton of issues at work today and I was crowned king of the castle since the back office manager just had a kid

been getting calls since 7am

But you know what keeps the fire inside of me burning through this ***

Killing Bumba looking for 9800x3ds for sale

I'm having hell of a time finding official drivers, but still looking. Connection has been stable for past 30min so who knows. Computer is only 2mo. old so dying NIC would definitely surprise me, never had one go bad before.

Thank you for the tech support Nynja and Thorny, btw. Much appreciated.

Got a driver installed, will see how it goes.

Just got the email an hour ago.

(Upgrade the mobo to a 670 mag for $729)

How is that different from what I said? lol
I was already running on the presumption the existing drivers were from microsoft, which is now confirmed by OP's difficulty finding the drivers from the manufactuer. So all he did was delete and reinstall the same drivers from the same source, which could have still been a potential fix if something on the drivers got corrupted somehow.

99% chance the NIC is onboard. Find what kind of motherboard you have and go from there
If you are unsure what mobo you have, download CPU-Z and that can tell you. From there, you can google "(mobo model) drivers" and theres a good chance the first result will be your target (ie: I have an asus Prime B550-plus, and the first hit was directly to the Asus drivers page for that mobo)

However if you're seeing stability since doing that uninstall/redownload+install, you may have had corrupted drivers that are now gone.

A typical cause of a sudden failure like this would be a windows update installing a new driver, without the user being aware. As such, automatically finding a driver won't correct this situation.

You are still correct that it has a chance to solve it, if the root cause is corruption or invalid state on the current driver.

I don't really want to nitpick, you are being helpful and I just wanted to clarify that you should default to the manufacturer's drivers when possible.

I may be wrong since I am not familiar with US labour market. But I think that has something to do with minimum wage increase?(Which is part of inflation), not billionaires making money?

In my region minimum wage gets increased aggressively in the recent years because politicians want votes. Which made cheap labours unaffordable to many family/employers with less income. Since foreign workers have even lower wage than minimum wage, most people ended up hiring foreign workers when they need cheap labour.

In other words, middle class in my region can still afford maids, but only because they paid below minimum wage to hire foreign workers from more poor regions.

I think the wealth of middle class still increases, but they feel relatively more poor because inflation and minimum wage increase > their wealth increase. So middle classes feels relatively more poor because of inflation.

Besides minimum wage increase, housing price is also what caused inflation.

Billionaires class is like 0.001% of the population. I don't think their wealth is the main reason behind inflation because their population is so tiny. If you make the argument of upper middle class(the top 20%) caused inflation by buying tons of real estate and drive the housing cost up, it would have make more sense. I certainly have seen data saying upper middle class's wealth increased way more than other class in the past 30 years.

They are upper middle class(top 20%) though, not billionaires(top 0.001%). Upper middle class are still much closer to common people than billionaires like Elon Musk.

Overall I do agree that middle class probably feel poorer because of inflation. But I don't think it is entirely billionaire(the top 0.001%)'s fault.

I still dont understand how thats different from what I said though.

You suggested getting drivers from manufacturer.
I said was that I dont believe he did this, despite them saying they reinstalled the driver. Kaffy said they deleted the driver from device manager then let it reinstall on its own. Such an action would install the latest that Microsoft has, not the latest from manu.

Youre wording it differently, but were both saying that letting microsoft find the driver means it might not be getting the latest. It might not even install the right one.

WEPAAAAAA

Microcenter has them - will pick up tonight

The disappearance of maids from middle class households had, I believe, more to do with domestic workers being added to social security than any minimum wage increase. But that wasn't something I payed attention to back then.

The federal minimum wage has remained unchanged for i5 years. At $7.25 / hour it is a disgrace. An hour won't buy most fast food hamburgers BEFORE taxes are deducted.

History of Federal Minimum Wage Rates

We have hedge funds buying up housing at a frantic rate and turning a profit through rentals. Our banks, who the government never gets tired of bailing out in times of crisis, is issuing rental backed securities having learned nothing from mortgage backed securities except to expect government bailouts when the ***hits the fan.

Now I can die to bumba 30% faster