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@reboot12 Now I have all installed on the exact same board AIMB-786, same Bios V5 as you. I use as cooler the nice Dynatron DB128015BU-E. First I thought board is dead, but it awakes after CLEAR CMOS few times. And I have exact the same symptoms: Not any of my i219 drivers sénds or gets a single package, no Ping no DHCP. I go back to the basics: I compare the Bios of the Asus z390 WS Pro with the same i219-LM Dev_15BB with the AIMB-786 board. In the Intel GbE region there are differences, 44 Byte different. But because I dont want to hack the Bios just now, (may be not easy, when length of definition for Dev_15BB are different(!!!) ) I compare the setup routine for the i219. And I notice, that there are already differences very early, even before the first network activity begins. I want to trace and compare all relevant early registers on both boards via Windbg. In the MMIO status is the bit 0x40000000, that is set early but never changed on any of the for the i219 working boards. On the AIMB this bit is never set. But this bit is only the result of a lot as BIOS/NVM setup, ME/firmware state, PHY/ULP/SMBus state etc.. and never asked for this bit on the working boards?! So I try to bring the AIMB-786 into the same register state as the ASUS WS Z390 Pro, step by step. The MMIO status may show the result Dietmar