"Network cable is unplugged" with a twist

[Heath Allyn]

Here's the story:

My wife and I both hook up to a linksys router. Until
this morning everything worked fine for over a year.
Suddenly this morning my wife gets "Network cable is
unplugged" on her onboard network connection.

I've tried a known good cable, I've switched ports on the
router (My machine works on all ports, hers gets the
message on all ports), I've re-installed latest drivers,
I've uninstalled/re-installed the network connection
under device manager. I've tried disabling the "detect
media source" registry key (I think that's what it was
called) and several other solutions I've looked up on the
net. I tried unplugging the machine for 30 minutes, then
restarting.

When a cable is plugged in, the link light comes on the
card, and the router sees the connection, but same
message.

Any ideas left? I'm totally baffled.

As a kicker, I had a hell of a time getting a second NIC
card to work once I installed it in her machine too. All
settings looked good and it should have worked, but I
couldn't even ping the router. After trying the same
things 10 times I eventually got it to work, though I
don't know how.

I hate computers sometimes. Many times I try the same
exact thing loads of times, and 9 times it doesn't work
but the tenth time it will!

Win XP Pro all altest updates (SP1)
Aopen MB with Intel Pro 100 onboard NIC

 

[Guest]

Heath: how many LEDs are there in the NIC, and how many are alight when
connected to the Network?

If you have only one, then there is power 'voltage' flowing, however there
is no logical connection.

Now, one other thing you haven't tried is to disable her NIC in BIOS and
'uninstall it from device manager' before putting in a known working NIC to
see if it works: sometimes it's a case of 'Lights on but nobody's home' and
the NIC is dead.

A device driver failure or device failure is a good place to start
investigating.

If you've exhausted this, you can spend more time in removing the NIC
[unplug it from the PCI slot] and removing all device drivers from Device
Manager - check also the 'hiden devices' , to make sure all traces are
removed.

Now go to your network connections and remove them.

Reboot the PC.

Once it's up and running, Shut Down.

Reinstall the NIC and set up your network again.

SHould this fail to recover a working network, then try a repair install of
WIndows: make sure that you unplug the NIC during this process and only
reinstall it after Windows has been 'repaired'.

 

[Guest]

2 lights, both are on.

Strangely, I could not find any way to disable her onboard
NIC in the bios. I kept looking thinking I must be missing
it, but never could find a way.

I do have a PCI NIC card working now, so I'm just leaving
it at that, though I would like to get the onboard working
again, just because I'm stubbon, and like to fix things.

-----Original Message-----
Heath: how many LEDs are there in the NIC, and how many are alight when
connected to the Network?

If you have only one, then there is power 'voltage' flowing, however there
is no logical connection.

Now, one other thing you haven't tried is to disable her NIC in BIOS and
'uninstall it from device manager' before putting in a known working NIC to
see if it works: sometimes it's a case of 'Lights on but nobody's home' and
the NIC is dead.

A device driver failure or device failure is a good place to start
investigating.

If you've exhausted this, you can spend more time in removing the NIC
[unplug it from the PCI slot] and removing all device drivers from Device
Manager - check also the 'hiden devices' , to make sure all traces are
removed.

Now go to your network connections and remove them.

Reboot the PC.

Once it's up and running, Shut Down.

Reinstall the NIC and set up your network again.

SHould this fail to recover a working network, then try a repair install of
WIndows: make sure that you unplug the NIC during this process and only
reinstall it after Windows has been 'repaired'.

Here's the story:

My wife and I both hook up to a linksys router. Until
this morning everything worked fine for over a year.
Suddenly this morning my wife gets "Network cable is
unplugged" on her onboard network connection.

I've tried a known good cable, I've switched ports on the
router (My machine works on all ports, hers gets the
message on all ports), I've re-installed latest drivers,
I've uninstalled/re-installed the network connection
under device manager. I've tried disabling the "detect
media source" registry key (I think that's what it was
called) and several other solutions I've looked up on the
net. I tried unplugging the machine for 30 minutes, then
restarting.

When a cable is plugged in, the link light comes on the
card, and the router sees the connection, but same
message.

Any ideas left? I'm totally baffled.

As a kicker, I had a hell of a time getting a second NIC
card to work once I installed it in her machine too. All
settings looked good and it should have worked, but I
couldn't even ping the router. After trying the same
things 10 times I eventually got it to work, though I
don't know how.

I hate computers sometimes. Many times I try the same
exact thing loads of times, and 9 times it doesn't work
but the tenth time it will!

Win XP Pro all altest updates (SP1)
Aopen MB with Intel Pro 100 onboard NIC

.

 

[Budget Print Center]

if you haven't already, linksys has a firmware upgrade for routers at thier
website dated march '04

i was having trouble with my surfboard cable modem constantly rebooting
after upgrading to xp.. that seemed to give the network what it needed to
know to run smoothly once again.