Microsoft Update screwed up my ethernet connection- help!!!

[Guest]

Installed a Microsot update for the D-Link - Networking - D-Link DGE-530T
Gigabit Ethernet Adapter today. Afterward, I lost all connection to the
Adaptor. I eventually uninstalled the D-Link Driver, rebooted and then
Windows 'Acquired Network Address'. So then I was connected.

On next reboot, the same problem. No connection, can't repair the
connection, can't locate an IP Address (even tried dos
ipconfig/release...ipconfig/renew to no avail.).

What the heck did the update do to my D-Link Hardware? It's a real nuissance
having to disable my adapter and reboot just to use the internet.

System:
Windows XP professional sp2
Dell Dimension 8100
D-Link - Networking - D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
Bios Version A02

 

[Jerry]

The mistake was to do an update from Microsoft - hardware updates are all
best downloaded from the hardware manufacturer's web site.

 

[James Silverton]

Jerry wrote on Sat, 1 Sep 2007 14:44:49 -0700:

J> "jettmorrison" <[email protected]>
J> wrote in message
??>> Installed a Microsot update for the D-Link - Networking -
??>> D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter today. Afterward,
??>> I lost all connection to the Adaptor. I eventually
??>> uninstalled the D-Link Driver, rebooted and then Windows
??>> 'Acquired Network Address'. So then I was connected.
??>>
??>> On next reboot, the same problem. No connection, can't
??>> repair the connection, can't locate an IP Address (even
??>> tried dos ipconfig/release...ipconfig/renew to no avail.).
??>>
??>> What the heck did the update do to my D-Link Hardware?
??>> It's a real nuissance having to disable my adapter and
??>> reboot just to use the internet.

If no-one has noticed, I have a rather jaundiced view of
Microsoft updates but I installed the latest one without any
abnormal happenings: FIOS connection and Actiontec broadband
router.


James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not