LAN

[Paul Koukos]

Had some lightning the other day and after we lost power, I also lost my LAN
icon and can not connect to my server or internet.

Is there a way to bring it back?

Thanks

 

[Big_Al]

Had some lightning the other day and after we lost power, I also lost my LAN
icon and can not connect to my server or internet.

Is there a way to bring it back?

Thanks

Look in Device Manager and see if you have big yellow ? or ! by any
devices. Do you have a Ethernet Controller? Does it say its working?

If you don't have a nic card, then the card is blown by the lightning.
Not a hard thing to do. Surprised your router is working! Or is
it? Or do you have one?

 

[Lem]

Had some lightning the other day and after we lost power, I also lost my LAN
icon and can not connect to my server or internet.

Is there a way to bring it back?

Thanks

Any electronic hardware connected, directly or indirectly, to an outside
wire (power, phone, cable) may end up being partially or totally
destroyed by a nearby lightning strike. Sometimes, it's difficult to
determine what's working and what's not except by substituting known
good hardware.

--
Lem -- MS-MVP

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm