No Linux networking with Intel 82574L Gigabit Controller on Intel Desktop Board D2700DC

I'm trying to get Linux to play nicely with an Intel Desktop Board D2700DC and can't get networking no matter what I do. It works fine with Windows 7 to 10 though.

Here's what I've tried to do:
- Try a LOT of different distro's and kernel versions.
- Install drivers directly from intel's website.

Here's some relevant info (taken from a Mageia 7.1 liveboot environment):

lscpi

(...)
01:00.0 Ethernet Controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection

dmesg | grep e1000e

[   20.971712] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 3.2.6-k
[   20.971716] e1000e: Copyright(c) 1999 - 2015 Intel Corporation.
[   20.972142] e1000e 0000:01:00.0: Interrupt Throttling Rate (ints/sec) set to dynamic conservative mode
[   20.972158] e1000e 0000:01:00.0 0000:01:00.0 (uninitialized): Failed to initialize MSI-X interrupts.  Falling back to MSI interrupts.
[   21.025544] e1000e 0000:01:00.0: The NVM Checksum Is Not Valid
[   21.105907] e1000e: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -5

If you need any more information to diagnose let me know!

I do apologize if this is a repeated question however I couldn't find any question addressing my exact problem, since this is a Linux only issue and not a problem with the hardware.
Thank you.

probably download a driver from here: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/dow...s-Under-Linux-

Would be nice to pick one OS and driver (version) and make that work...

Originally Posted by pan64 probably download a driver from here: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/dow...s-Under-Linux- Would be nice to pick one OS and driver (version) and make that work...

I have done that alredy, as stated in the original post.
Same result.

ok, probably a bios upgrade/downgrade?
or this: https://sourceforge.net/p/e1000/bugs/498/