MISSING NETWORK ADAPTERS AFTER UPDATE

[Guest]

THIS IS A STRANGE ONE ! ALL RUNNING WELL UNTILL A MICROSOFT UPDATE,
INSTALLED THE UPDATE AND PUT THE COMPUTER TO SLEEP, WENT TO WORK, WHEN I GOT
HOME, THE SCREEN WAS BLACK AND WOULD NOT COME ON. I HIT THE POWER BUTTON AND
REBOOTED IT. THE INTERNET CONNECTION WAS NOT THERE. I HAVE AN ETHERNET
BUILT IN CARD. AND I KNOW MY INTERNET IS WORKING BECAUSE I HAVE ANOTHER
COMPUTER WITH A WIRELESS CONNECTION IN ANOTHER ROOM AND ITS SENDING THIS!
WHEN I GO INTO THE DEVICE MANAGER THE NETWORK ADAPTERS ARE NOT THERE?? ANY
TROUBLE SHOOTING SAYS I HAVE NO ADAPTERS INTALLED AND CONFIGURED. IF MY
CARD WAS BAD MY NETWORK ADAPTERS WOULD STILL BE THERE WOULDN'T THEY. ANY
IDEA'S

 

[f/fgeorge]

STOP SCREAMING!!!!
Please do this again except please type in mixed case letters, your
message is VERY hard to read.
thanks

 

[Jonathan Yaniv- Windows Live Butterfly Expert]

It killed my audio....

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Thank you,

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Jonathan Yaniv
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[Mike Hall - MVP]

Have you tried using the 'Add Hardware' function in Control panel?

 

[Jonathan Yaniv- Windows Live Butterfly Expert]

Yes, I have, no luck

Im going to try Windows repair, using the Windows Vista installation DVD
later today.

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Thank you,

Have a nice day,

Jonathan Yaniv
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[f/fgeorge]

Yes, I have, no luck

Im going to try Windows repair, using the Windows Vista installation DVD
later today.

So you are going to reinstall Windows instead of just fixing the sound
card driver issue?

 

[Jonathan Yaniv- Windows Live Butterfly Expert]

I tried fixing the sound drivers... they don't want to work anymore...

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Thank you,

Have a nice day,

Jonathan Yaniv
Microsoft Windows LiveT Butterfly Expert

 

[Poppy]

See my post on 11th October re deadly MS update driver for Attansic L1
network controller. Good luck.

Poppy.

 

[f/fgeorge]

I tried fixing the sound drivers... they don't want to work anymore...

Did you delete them entirely? Or even remove the sound card from
device manager and then refeshing so it finds it again? I just think
reinstalling Vista is a bit drastic. Personally I would physically
remove the sound card, then reinstall it if it came to that. If it is
mb based I would disable it in the BIOS then after booting into
Windows, restart and go into the BIOS and re-enable it and see if
Vista finds it. Of course at some point I would give up and either do
what you said you are going to do or get a new external sound card.
The problem with reinstalling Vista is that alot of your already
installed programs just won't work anymore. A 'repair' MAY work, that
is what you siad you are going to try. But it may not work too.

 

[f/fgeorge]

See my post on 11th October re deadly MS update driver for Attansic L1
network controller. Good luck.

Poppy.

My wireless LinkSys card stopped working too, I had to do some playing
with the settings and finally just told it to fix it itself. It now
works fine again.