I had somewhat the same problem with an old laptop tinker-toy. I didn't really care if I totally screwed it up or not so I just went in through device manager and deleted the NIC. Rebooted and went through the "New Hardware found" dance, installed all the drivers again and never would have thought it would work but it did. I haven't had a problem with it since. Everyone is giving great ideas so just keep trying and good luck.
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