local area network connection disappeared

[R.H.]

I have a windows 2000 machine that has two network cards; an internal
one that is used to access the internet and a pci card (DLink) which is
used to access another PC to load software. I was having trouble
communicating between the two PCs and so I opened up the Dell computer
and moved the PCI card to a different slot just to see and then suddenly
both local area network connections in the dial up and network folder
were suddenly gone. I can still access the Internet, but I can no
longer access the properties in order to setup their tcp/ip settings and
so forth. Anybody have any ideas of how to get my connections back?

Roger

 

[Bob Qin [MSFT]]

Hi Roger,

Thank you for posting here.

This behavior can occur because of one or more of the following reasons:

- The Plug and Play service is not running, causing the Local Area
Connection icon to not be displayed.

- The Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service is not running, causing the
Make New Connection icon to not be displayed.

- You used the Dcomcnfg.exe tool to change DCOM default settings,
causing the error message listed earlier in this article to be displayed.

- One of the following network dlls is not properly registered.

- Netcfgx.dll
- Netman.dll
- Netshell.dll

- The Network Connections service is disabled or is not started,
causing the Local Area Connection icon to not be displayed.

I recommend that you refer to the following article to resolve this issue.

254631 Some Network and Dial-Up Connections Icons May Be Missing
<http://support.microsoft.com/?id=254631>

Wish it helps.

Regards,
Bob Qin
Microsoft Online Partner Support

Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

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Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 15:27:12 -0700
From: "R.H." <[email protected]>
Subject: local area network connection disappeared
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.networking

I have a windows 2000 machine that has two network cards; an internal
one that is used to access the internet and a pci card (DLink) which
is
used to access another PC to load software. I was having trouble
communicating between the two PCs and so I opened up the Dell
computer
and moved the PCI card to a different slot just to see and then
suddenly
both local area network connections in the dial up and network folder
were suddenly gone. I can still access the Internet, but I can no
longer access the properties in order to setup their tcp/ip settings
and
so forth. Anybody have any ideas of how to get my connections back?

Roger