No packets received after upgrade(s)

[Wizarium]

I have an ECS K7S5A mobo with an internal NIC. I also have
various PCI NIC cards. For the last 2 years, I've been
running a Linksys LNE100TX as a second NIC with absolutley
no problems at all. Two nights ago, I bought a new sound
card and installed it. Afterwards, I upgraded to DirectX 9
and all critical Win2K updates/patches from WindowsUpdate.
Upon re-booting, my Linksys will no longer receive network
packets. It will show like 70+ packets sent, but none
received, so Win2K cannot contact a DHCP server and
instead assigns it a 194.x.x.x IP with a subnet of
255.255.0.0. I have tried everything in my power to get
this working again. I have uninstalled all drivers for the
new sound card and the card itself, eliminating that as a
problem. I have swapped the Linksys NIC for 2 others I
have in other machines, both Intel NICs. Same problem, 0
packets received. The onboard NIC (to the Internet) works
just fine, but without the 2nd NIC, my network is
completely down. I've never seen this happen before, so
I'm at a loss and hoping someone back here can get me
going again.

Regards,
- Keith

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Hi Keith. Only thing I can add is to try different PCI slots if you
have not done so yet, and maybe check your cmos settings. For Windows 2000 I
generally find it better to check that the OS is NOT pnp capable. Also there
is usually an option to clear or reset plug and pray configuration on next
reboot in the cmos. Also in device manager select view/show hidden devices
and make sure any non existant network adapters are removed if showing
up. --- Steve