I have a desktop computer with the good old Asus Sabertooth x58 motherboard. My setup is a dual boot with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Windows 10.
Since some month ago, I noticed that my ethernet works fine, except when I decide to restart from Ubuntu and choose Windows. In that situation, Windows says my ethernet cable is unplugged, even if I restart to Windows more times. The only way to solve that is to shut down the computer and the power supply for 5-10 seconds, and then it works fine.
Restarting from Windows to Windows/Ubuntu and from Ubuntu to Ubuntu works as expected (from Windows to Windows only if Ethernet works well, otherwise, the problem persists).
I have a weirder problem when I had Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, because it didn't allowed me to have 1000 MB/s Full Duplex, but it solved automagically when I installed the next LTS. I tried yesterday to reinstall my Windows 10, hoping to have another automagical fix, but the problem persists.
I suspect there may be a malfunction on the Ethernet card, because I didn't have any problem like this a year ago, but I'm still willing to find a way to solve it before buying a new card.
Edit
In Ubuntu, ethtool -S enp7s1
returns
NIC statistics:
tx_packets: 43876499
rx_packets: 56660374
tx_errors: 0
rx_errors: 0
rx_missed: 11418
align_errors: 0
tx_single_collisions: 0
tx_multi_collisions: 0
unicast: 56592808
broadcast: 36223
multicast: 31344
tx_aborted: 0
tx_underrun: 0
and ethtool enp7s1
returns
Settings for enp7s1:
Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Supported FEC modes: Not reported
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
Link partner advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Link partner advertised pause frame use: No
Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Link partner advertised FEC modes: Not reported
Speed: 1000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: MII
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: pumbg
Wake-on: d
Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
drv probe ifdown ifup
Link detected: yes
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