New Intel NIC, no connection, what next?

[paleoN]

Did you have the "1 corrected" AER? I don't know what that means, but presumably an error of some sort. "corrected" sounds good, but a "0" would be better.

I have two. The last six digits of my serial are different as well. The other lines are exact.

Do yourself a favor and turn off the Windows firewall completely while you are testing. It appears you may be blocking ICMP traffic.