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| Thread ID: 97494 | 2009-02-17 23:53:00 | LAN Problem | CYaBro (73) | Press F1 |
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| 748857 | 2009-02-17 23:53:00 | Hey people, I have a machine here that is really doing my head in. It is an older AMD XP 3400+ on a Gigabyte mobo with NForce3 chipset. The problem is that the onboard NIC won't get an IP from the DHCP server and if I put in one manually it still won't work. Everything looks OK in Device Manager & no errors in event logs. The network connection says that no bytes have been transmitted or received. I have removed all drivers, run a driver clean removal tool, reset ip via cmd, run winsockXP fix, downloaded and installed latested drivers from nVidia. The weird thing is it was working fine last night, I shut it down and went home, came in this morning and booted it up and it wasn't working. No Windows Updates were installed while shutting down. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 748858 | 2009-02-17 23:58:00 | Could have simply failed - It does happen some times. Easiest way I have found to test things like this is first find out, is it hardware or software ??? Boot from a Linux live CD - it should pick up the Ethernet connection OK - if the connection / Internet is working OK from the CD - Then you know its software - if Not Its a Hard Ware problem. Once you locate where the actual fault is then you start looking at fixes - no point in trying to fix damaged / blocked software if the hardware has died. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 748859 | 2009-02-18 00:11:00 | Hmm you could be right. Just trying with Ultimate Boot CD and it is having the same problem. Just found an Ubuntu CD so booting that up now. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 748860 | 2009-02-18 00:30:00 | Looks like a dead NIC :crying I don't have another in stock to test in the machine either :crying |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 748861 | 2009-02-18 00:44:00 | One other thing if its not getting any data - theres a off chance the Ethernet cable is damaged - tried changing that ??? | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 748862 | 2009-02-18 00:47:00 | It's working again! :banana I shut it down and cleared the CMOS with the jumper on the mobo. Restarted, reconfigured the BIOS settings and loaded Windows and it worked. Weird... |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 748863 | 2009-02-18 06:26:00 | Thats Weird alright - but good it's working again. | wainuitech (129) | ||
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