Go into Device Manager and find the NIC, which likely will _NOT_ show up as a
yellow question mark, and uninstall it. Look under Network Adapters. If you
don't see something that you know is the NIC, uninstall everything under that
heading. Then reboot.
Fred Holmes
At 11:53 PM 9/9/2008,
Of course, if the NIC has simply failed (happens all the time), it
won't be showing up in Device Manager.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Fred Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Go into Device Manager and find the NIC, which likely will _NOT_ show up as a
yellow question mark, and uninstall it.
Thanks for all the helpful tips. I now have the computer up and
running, but a different problem has emerged. The on-board Ethernet
connection doesn't work. It was working fine the last time the
computer was running. As a work-a-round, I've put in a wireless PCI
board to get the needed updates and
i should recommend that you congure up michelson and morley, as the defined the
non existance of ether.
At 05:59 PM 9/9/2008, you wrote:
Thanks for all the helpful tips. I now have the computer up and
running, but a different problem has emerged. The on-board Ethernet
connection doesn't work. It
Ethernet to USB adapters abound and work well. I have used one with no
problems.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=184804Sku=B20-5096SRCCODE=GOOGLEBASEcm_mmc_o=TBBTkwCjCVyBpAgf%20mwzygtCjCVRqCjCVRq
This is one I Googled. It's not the one I have, but I
Uninstall it from network connections first; then uninstall it from the
device manager (the actual ethernet in network adapters listing); then
reboot and let windows tell you it has found new hardware and install it and
you shud be gud2go...
-Original Message-
From: Richard P.
The only thing I found with a yellow question mark were Other
Devices which listed 5 items:
Video controller
SM Bus Controller
Other PCI Bridge Device
PCI Device
PCI Simple Communications Controller
I uninstalled them all and tried to reinstall them when the computer
found them upon reboot, but
