Re: LAN won't cooperate
- From: "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:49:07 -0400
In news:739E606A-F42F-492E-BEA1-7501ABCAC9F9@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
fedup <fedup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
Hi there, I'm locked in mortal combat with my son's computer..Win XP
sp2. At home, his computer was connected directly to mine via
(crossover?) cable. Worked fine, he connected to the internet through
my machine. Delivered him to university, He's provided with a fast
connection into the university system. When he tried to pug into the
system, his comp. kept saying "a cable is unplugged", which it
wasn't. He borrowed another comp. and tested his physical connection
(cable+scket) they were fine, the other comp. went straight onto the
network. We then thought maybe the lan connection was searching for
our home network (despite setting up everything according to
university instructions). After a lot of research, i uninstalled the
lan (from the device manager) and tried a fresh connection...no joy.
same message..The Lan is onboard so couldn't be physically
uninstalled...the light came on intermittently when the cable was
plugged in.. and so I figured maybe he'd damaged the connection when
taking cables in and out....Really cheesed off by now..went and got
an ethernet card...BUT when I installed the card +driver, the
computer resurrected the uninstalled onboard Lan too...and now we're
getting "limited or no Connectivity". and or "A network cable is
unplugged" .SO I went into the BIos and disbled the onboard Lan,
configured the card and TERRific..all seemed well, we got onto the
network...BUT next day,(after i'd gone home) he turned on computer
and NO NETWORK CONNECTIONS present...Has the bios disabled the card
too? What on earth can I try next? --
All help gratefully received
The BIOS is not the likely culprit here. Is the new card showing up in
device manager? Is the onboard NIC? If you don't want to use that, it can be
disabled *there* - no need to go into the BIOS for it if you don't want.
In the network card properties in Network Connections, is it set to
autosense, or is it locked to a specific speed or duplex setting? He may
need to play with the settings to get it to work on this other network by
trying various settings therein.
.
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