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Mark \(CA\)
My system seems unable to find my NIC and thus the local area
connection icon is not displayed. The NIC is part of my mother board.
I called the manufacturer who had me run a diagnostic that confirmed
the NIC isn't being seen. A tech is scheduled to come and replace the
mother board since the system is still under warranty.
I temporarily installed a new Linksys NIC as a stop gap until the
technician comes 7 days from now. The NIC installed yet the local area
connection icon is still missing. The Linksys card doesn't show under
Device manager either. I ran a PC Doctor diagnostic and it found and
passed the Linksys NIC.
I am thinking this is an XP problem instead of hardware. However, I
have no idea how to trouble shoot it. The network connection was
working as of last night be zippo today. Over the past 3 weeks, I had
noticed intermittent problems getting a connection. I thought it was
my cable modem. That has since been ruled out since I swapped out a
new one with my ISP just yesterday.
System specs:
Compaq Presario SR1030NX
Win XP w/SP2 installed
AMD Althlon XP Processor (2.16GHz)
512 MB PC2700 RAM
Help?!?!
Mark
connection icon is not displayed. The NIC is part of my mother board.
I called the manufacturer who had me run a diagnostic that confirmed
the NIC isn't being seen. A tech is scheduled to come and replace the
mother board since the system is still under warranty.
I temporarily installed a new Linksys NIC as a stop gap until the
technician comes 7 days from now. The NIC installed yet the local area
connection icon is still missing. The Linksys card doesn't show under
Device manager either. I ran a PC Doctor diagnostic and it found and
passed the Linksys NIC.
I am thinking this is an XP problem instead of hardware. However, I
have no idea how to trouble shoot it. The network connection was
working as of last night be zippo today. Over the past 3 weeks, I had
noticed intermittent problems getting a connection. I thought it was
my cable modem. That has since been ruled out since I swapped out a
new one with my ISP just yesterday.
System specs:
Compaq Presario SR1030NX
Win XP w/SP2 installed
AMD Althlon XP Processor (2.16GHz)
512 MB PC2700 RAM
Help?!?!
Mark