Re: Network Adapter problem/cable unplugged Xp Home SP2

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Joe - run "ipconfig /all" from a command prompt.

"Joe W" <JoeW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I didn't think that installing the drive would have done anything
either...
oh well.
I checked all the connections inside and everything looked OK - dont think
there's anything on the motherboard itself that could affect *only* the
network card. (All other PCI cards function fine in any slot). MB is Intel
845GVSR (no onboard LAN)

Only network configuration I changed was the transmission speed when
trying
10/100 etc. It's back to Auto now since changing it didn't do anything.

DHCP is all auto/DNS etc as it was before.

As far as the multiple connection #s, if the number goes up even if I
don't
make a change (no uninstall/reinstall of drivers or hardware) does that
mean
the last attempt didn't succeed (although obviously it didn't!)?

Once upon a time I had a similar issue with a digital camera connected via
USB - the camera stopped talking to the computer and I had numbers like
"Canon digital camera 8" when I tried to connect.
The helpful Canon rep had me do some registry editing to erase all of the
Canon entires, next time I tried to connect was back to "Canon Digital
Camera" and everything worked great again.

Even though that was USB and a totally different animal, I can't get out
of
my head that perhaps something similar has gone on here.

Any and all thoughts/ideas are most welcome
Thanks-



"AJR" wrote:

You have been a busy beaver!! I doubt if installing a slave HD would
affect
network connectivity - except that during the physical installation of
the
HD there was some other "physical" disruption.
One cause for multiple "local connection #" is that the connection
settings
have been changed/disrupted/deleted and each time the computer is booted
connection setup tries to continue - also the many attempts at
card/adapter
changes causes connection setting changes.
You did say - but did you check/reconfigure the connection configuration?



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