Hi there,i was about to open a thread like this too i got the exact same issues...i bought the mobo yesterday and since then i can't make its Network adaptor to work :(...i did a hdd format,clean windows install,enabled it in bios,updated the bios,installed the drivers from disk also tried with the drivers from Asus/Intel sites...no freaking luck :(...and i'm so pissed off cuz i payed a lot for this mobo...and btw except the network issue everything esle seems to work fine...oh and something else if i clear cmos,the led from the network adaptor lights for like a fraction of second and the ethernet led from the modem stays on till the windows 7 logo screen after that it goes off,atm i'm using a cheap PCI network card...