Can’t connect to the internet after booting up Windows 10 with a USB

[Ian Benedict]

Recently Windows 10 was in a blue screen loop for me so I had to reinstall it using a USB stick from 2018. However it installs the version of Windows 10 from 2018 and for whatever reason it doesn’t let me connect to the internet even though I’m using an ethernet cable. When troubleshooting I get “Ethernet doesn’t have a valid IP configuration.” I can’t sign into my Microsoft account nor update to the newest version of Windows 10 because of this.

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