Missing NIC, Modem and CD Drives following wireless setup

[Guest]

Yesterday AM, I started my day by fetching my email. Everything was ok until
I looked at my wireless G linksys router. The red diag light was on solid
and all ports were flashing.

I reset the router and rebooted with no impact. I then unplugged the router
for 5 mins and tried to power up. PC tells me lan is unplugged. All lights
are black. Test power supply. Volts and amps are A-Ok. I now have a brick!

Off to purchace a new router... Home I come with a new linksys WRT54G. It
was on sale. Should be pretty easy to replace with the same model. Right?
Wrong! After 3 attempts to set up, I still cannot get the router set up with
my DSL modem. I've done this many times before, but its never been this
hard. Oh well, I'll try the cd that came with the hardware. Says it can't
find my router. Go to mfg website and find netsetup utility, run it, save a
netclient setup for easy setup on other wireless pc's in house. Run around
to them and get everything back the way it was before. Laptop happy, Wife
happy, daughter happy, I'm now happy! Whew.....

Get up today and nothing. No internet access on desktop. laptop(WiFi),
wifes pc(WiFi), daughters pc(WiFi) don't find wireless access. Browse for
wireless... nada! Well let's try again. Disconnect router and plug directly
into DSL modem. Go to launchmodem... page not found.

I go to network connections and network connections is empty.

Let's look and device manager and find the following....

NIC is no longer in device manager.
CD drive has drive installed but hardware cannot be found.
CD #2 says the same thing.

Oh yea, when I last booted, WinFax is complaied it cannot find modem. But
modem is here?

I have another NIC on the motherboard. Plug into it and viola! Connected.
Now how to i resolved the CD drives, NIC and modem?

Let's try uninstalling cd and rebooting to see if it finds it and installs
it ok. Nope, now it says registry is corrupted.

Tried network setup and it ran for 2 hours and never finished.

Went into device manager and selected show hidden devices and I found my
original NIC.

I originally thought I might have a hardware problem with the PCI bus but I
also have a PCI video card and sound card that are both working find. The
original NIC and modem are also PCI cards. That would not explain the CD
drives, one SCSI and the Other IDE.

Here's the question. How best to resolve the following problems?

Setup the original NIC and get my internet connection through that NIC?

How to reinstall the CD drives.

I'm running XP pro with service pack 1, 2 and all current fixes. Do I try a
Repair or reinstall? While your at it... how does a device become hidden?

 

[Roberto]

Yesterday AM, I started my day by fetching my email. Everything was ok
until
I looked at my wireless G linksys router. The red diag light was on solid
and all ports were flashing.

I reset the router and rebooted with no impact. I then unplugged the
router
for 5 mins and tried to power up. PC tells me lan is unplugged. All
lights
are black. Test power supply. Volts and amps are A-Ok. I now have a
brick!

Off to purchace a new router... Home I come with a new linksys WRT54G. It
was on sale. Should be pretty easy to replace with the same model.
Right?
Wrong! After 3 attempts to set up, I still cannot get the router set up
with
my DSL modem. I've done this many times before, but its never been this
hard. Oh well, I'll try the cd that came with the hardware. Says it
can't
find my router. Go to mfg website and find netsetup utility, run it,
save a
netclient setup for easy setup on other wireless pc's in house. Run
around
to them and get everything back the way it was before. Laptop happy, Wife
happy, daughter happy, I'm now happy! Whew.....

Get up today and nothing. No internet access on desktop. laptop(WiFi),
wifes pc(WiFi), daughters pc(WiFi) don't find wireless access. Browse for
wireless... nada! Well let's try again. Disconnect router and plug
directly
into DSL modem. Go to launchmodem... page not found.

I go to network connections and network connections is empty.

Let's look and device manager and find the following....

NIC is no longer in device manager.
CD drive has drive installed but hardware cannot be found.
CD #2 says the same thing.

Oh yea, when I last booted, WinFax is complaied it cannot find modem. But
modem is here?

I have another NIC on the motherboard. Plug into it and viola!
Connected.
Now how to i resolved the CD drives, NIC and modem?

If think you are saying you have an onboard NIC as well as a PCI NIC,
if so I would remove both from DM, shutdown then physically remove
the PCI NIC, [modem as well whilst inside the housing].
Also double check that the onboard NIC is enabled in BIOS, restart and
install the drivers, if all goes well re fit the modem and install
it's drivers.

Regarding the CDROM is it detected in BIOS setrup ?.

<snip>

rgds
Roberto

 

[beb]

A system working ok and then deteriorates with the problems you describe
suggest more than coincidence. Check up your event viewer, system logs and
application logs for errors and warnings. Power surges sometime does what
you describe to routers and machines. I hope that is not the case because
the failure can be so intermittent and can affect so many different
components. Back up your important files. Check your machine for malicious
software. Run check disk. Uninstall the problem devices and reboot and let
windows reinstall them. If nothing else work try a repair install.

 

[Guest]

yes the CD rom is visible to the BIOS. As a mater of fact I can boot from
the cd rom.

Yesterday AM, I started my day by fetching my email. Everything was ok
until
I looked at my wireless G linksys router. The red diag light was on solid
and all ports were flashing.

I reset the router and rebooted with no impact. I then unplugged the
router
for 5 mins and tried to power up. PC tells me lan is unplugged. All
lights
are black. Test power supply. Volts and amps are A-Ok. I now have a
brick!

Off to purchace a new router... Home I come with a new linksys WRT54G. It
was on sale. Should be pretty easy to replace with the same model.
Right?
Wrong! After 3 attempts to set up, I still cannot get the router set up
with
my DSL modem. I've done this many times before, but its never been this
hard. Oh well, I'll try the cd that came with the hardware. Says it
can't
find my router. Go to mfg website and find netsetup utility, run it,
save a
netclient setup for easy setup on other wireless pc's in house. Run
around
to them and get everything back the way it was before. Laptop happy, Wife
happy, daughter happy, I'm now happy! Whew.....

Get up today and nothing. No internet access on desktop. laptop(WiFi),
wifes pc(WiFi), daughters pc(WiFi) don't find wireless access. Browse for
wireless... nada! Well let's try again. Disconnect router and plug
directly
into DSL modem. Go to launchmodem... page not found.

I go to network connections and network connections is empty.

Let's look and device manager and find the following....

NIC is no longer in device manager.
CD drive has drive installed but hardware cannot be found.
CD #2 says the same thing.

Oh yea, when I last booted, WinFax is complaied it cannot find modem. But
modem is here?

I have another NIC on the motherboard. Plug into it and viola!
Connected.
Now how to i resolved the CD drives, NIC and modem?

If think you are saying you have an onboard NIC as well as a PCI NIC,
if so I would remove both from DM, shutdown then physically remove
the PCI NIC, [modem as well whilst inside the housing].
Also double check that the onboard NIC is enabled in BIOS, restart and
install the drivers, if all goes well re fit the modem and install
it's drivers.

Regarding the CDROM is it detected in BIOS setrup ?.

<snip>

rgds
Roberto