That seems to suggest that there is nothing wrong with the PC, but you seem to believe that it must be a setting on the PC that is causing a problem. Your statement seems to rule out the PC and points to a problem with the switch.
Make/model of both router and switch, and exact wording of the error you are receiving from your network adapter might be very helpful in determining the problem.

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