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Thread ID: 104571 2009-11-01 05:04:00 NIC woes jcr1 (893) Press F1
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826126 2009-11-03 17:58:00 My suggestion would have been to re-seat the original NIC card. I've even struck instances where the motherboard sat too low relative to the lip in the frame where the card is screwed into place - meaning the card couldn't get deep unough into the slot without me butchering the metal tab on the card. At least they bend easily for a quick solution. Paul.Cov (425)
826127 2009-11-04 05:13:00 My suggestion would have been to re-seat the original NIC card. I've even struck instances where the motherboard sat too low relative to the lip in the frame where the card is screwed into place - meaning the card couldn't get deep unough into the slot without me butchering the metal tab on the card. At least they bend easily for a quick solution.

I actually tried that one as well; still no go:confused:

At least, now, I've got a network connection. But it would be nice to know what went wrong with the onboard device (please just treat this as wishful thinking).
jcr1 (893)
826128 2009-11-04 06:05:00 Many component-level failures could cause your onboard NIC to stop working but if it just disappeared from windows it might just be software related.

If it disappeared from the BIOS completely though, the obvious question would be did it disable itself?
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