Re: Network connection works once, then never again
- From: "Quaoar" <quaoar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:54:49 -0700
"lorenjerickson" <lorenjerickson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:97CF5089-3C68-4070-A721-4A06B505CD79@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I just built a new 64-bit system based on an ASUS A8V motherboard and
>an AMD
> Athlon 3500+. I've got WinXP x64 installed on a SATA drive (no small
> feat,
> apparently), and everything works great, except.. I'm seeing a very
> weird
> problem with my network card. The motherboard has onboard LAN, so I
> tried
> that first. The drivers installed just fine and I got onto the
> Internet.once. I connected to Windows Update and downloaded all the
> latest
> updates. Then I rebooted, and the network connection never worked
> again.
> WinXP reports that the device is working normally, but the card fails
> to get
> an IP address from the router/dhcp server. (This is a home network.)
> I have
> another computer that is also hard-wired to the router and it
> consistently
> obtains a network connection, so I'm pretty sure it's not the router.
>
> I thought it might be a problem with the motherboard, so I bought a
> wireless
> card (Lynksys) and installed it. WinXP didn't recognize the card at
> first,
> but I'd read online that if that fails you should try drivers from
> Ralink
> whose chipset is used in some Linksys cards. I downloaded those
> drivers and
> used them to install the device. WinXP complained that it couldn't
> verify
> that the drivers would work with this device, but I tried it anyway.
> The
> device was recognized, and it worked great.once. I chose to use my
> newly
> re-established network connection to download more updates from
> windows
> update, and after the reboot the network connection was lost (again).
> In
> this case the wireless card would not even locate the wireless router,
> which
> is sitting right next to the new computer. WinXP reports that the
> wireless
> card is working correctly.
>
> It's very strange that I would essentially the same problem with two
> different network cards. I'm trying to pare this problem down to
> common
> denominators, but it's pretty tough. Motherboard? OS? Router? My
> next step
> is to connect the onboard LAN directly to the cable modem to try to
> eliminate
> the router. Do you have any insight on this problem?
Google winsockxpfix.exe and lspfix.exe. Both will repair a broken
TCP/IP stack. On my five networked computers, your problem pops up from
nowhere about once per month, for whatever reason - and almost always
when connecting a new NIC on an older computer.
Q
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