\\\*edit to add: I've cleared the power and storage iml entries since taking these pics\\\*

\*Symptoms:

flashing amber led on the health status icon, no errors or info to diagnose, all components test ok

No link lights on either eth port or front panel

Doesn't seem to be able to connect to dhcp at all

Direct link to laptop doesnt work

Ilo will sometimes link briefly after a hard power cycle (unplugged, power button held for 30sec, reboot) but drops as soon as bios posts

Eth port is correctly assigned in bios

No conflicting config, factory defaults shows no improvement

Just need someone to tell me if my embedded nic is dead or salvageable.. would like to avoid replacing the main board if I can, hard to find a riser for a secondary pcie card too so running a secondary nic isn't really an option right now. \*

Recently purchased this hp proliant dl120 gen9 to host a couple of websites and my homelab, for which it worked perfectly for about a month. A couple weeks back it dropped off the network while I was our and even ilo became unreachable.. which I thought was weird but a power cycle managed to fix it for the time being. Following through until the other day, the same thing happened while I was away from home, and power cycling the server did absolutely nothing.

I've now been troubleshooting for the last 3 days straight with little progress in getting back on the network.

The only real clue was a blank iml entry listing an unknown uncorrectable fatal pci error that (of course) happened while i was out so I didn't get to catch what caused it. No other significant errors, embedded diagnostics shows the nic is ok, all tests return ok except the network test which tells me UEFI networking is not supported / available??

Iml log completely clear otherwise, have been through the dmesg log and there's nothing of significance, lspci returns nothing specific installed (eth, net etc.) Yet the device is listed in bios just fine. I flashed an up to date rom to no avail and tried the redundant one also without luck, have turned dhcp off and manually assigned static ip / subnet / gateway but still won't link.