Re: Urgent help requested: "Network Cable Unplugged" when it isn't unplugged

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From: Philip Lane (pnlrogue1_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 03:19:12 -0700

Lol! It IS Tuesday but miraculously not raining!

I haven't changed any hardware in months so it's not the
cable (yes, it is P2P and yes, i am using x-over). I
didn't ram it into the wall (yet) so it's not that BUT
neither network adaptor lights up when i plug a cable in
to it (though i can't remember if mine even has a light
and i can't easily check) and i know it's not switched
off as i just flipped a setting yesterday so windows
couldn't switch it off...

If it were the cable, surely both pcs would report it as
being unplugged?

Phil Lane

>-----Original Message-----
>Philip Lane wrote on 20-Sep-2004 1:50 PM:
>> Hi there
>>
>> For 3 months, i have been running an network with my
>> father's computer perfectly, until i tried to search
for
>> something on an internet page yesterday morning
>>
>> The page hung internet explorer on my pc and forced me
to
>> close the program several times (i should have
probably
>> given up after the same thing happened 3 times...)
before
>> it was too serious and i had to shutdown my pc to get
the
>> thing to respond, sadly, i hibernated it by mistake,
>> rather than doing a forced-shutdown and now my
father's
>> pc which is my ICS Gateway is insisting that my
network
>> cable is unplugged and is saying that the media state
>> is "Media Unplugged" when i run ipconfig yet my pc is
>> happy and thinks the cable is plugged in and gives an
ip
>> address and everything (169.254.40.133) yet i can't
ping
>> my machine from my fathers (no response) and i can't
ping
>> my fathers (192.168.0.1) from mine ("destination is
>> unreachable" or something similar)
>>
>> Both machines insist that their adaptors are working
>> perfectly (and i hope so as mine is built on to the
>> motherboard...) and yet they both suggest that one of
>> them isn't working (and yes, the cable IS plugged in)
>>
>> Anyone seen where the microsoft online assistance
thing
>> has gone? they've been very helpful in the past but
don't
>> seem to exist anymore...
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Philip Lane
>
>That popup balloon almost always means that there is a
hardware issue.
>Your description sounds like you have your PC plugged
directly into the
>other PC which is acting as your Internet gateway. You
need a cross-over
>cable for this. If you moved things around and picked up
the wrong
>cable, that could be your problem. You can recognize a
straight-thru
>cable because each plug has the wires in the same order.
A cross-over
>cable is obviously not the same wiring order on the
plugs.
>
>Does either of the LEDs on your adapter plug light up
when you plug in
>the cable? If so, you have some kind of basic hardware
connection.
>
>If you have a hub/switch in the middle, then you need to
debug those
>cable connections and look at the lights.
>
>Of course, your crossover cable could be smushed. Did
you pinch it? Did
>you ram the computer up against the wall and smush the
cable against the
>plug?
>
>Is it Tuesday? Is it raining? Is your laundry still
hanging out on the
>line? No, forget that. Let's eliminate all hardware
culprits before
>turning to the software.
>
>--
>Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security
>.
>

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