PC won’t recognize ethernet ?

So, when plugging in an ethernet cable, the light on the back of the PC is green but Wifi is still being used. Ethernet doesn’t even get recognized. I tried to trouble shoot this a bunch of ways like reinstalling LAN drivers for my motherboard, unplugging and plugging the cable back in, etc.

When going into device manager, the ethernet controller device only shows up under HIDDEN devices. When inspecting the properties, it says “Currently, this hardware device is not connected to the computer (Code 45).” The device is very much plugged in.

So I moved onto to BIOS to see if my Intel LAN controller was disabled, but it wasn’t. But i tried disabling it, then saving and resetting, and then enabling, and saving and resetting and that somehow worked? My PC recognized ethernet after that. But the next day my PC was back to not using ethernet.

Wondering why this was happening and if there’s a more permanent fix.