I have a Gateway desktop running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. Internet browsing seemed to work only intermittently at first, and then not at all.
The machine is plugged into a wired router, and all other machines on the network have fine internet connectivity. The Gateway machine must be connecting to the internet, though, as it downloads Windows updates just fine; it just has no browsing ability. I can't even open my router page using 192.168.0.1. I tried booting into safe mode with networking and still no browsing ability.
On a lark, I installed a USB wireless adapter and disabled my ethernet adapter and now I can browse fine.
Does that definitely point to a bad ethernet adapter? Or is there something else I can try?
The machine is plugged into a wired router, and all other machines on the network have fine internet connectivity. The Gateway machine must be connecting to the internet, though, as it downloads Windows updates just fine; it just has no browsing ability. I can't even open my router page using 192.168.0.1. I tried booting into safe mode with networking and still no browsing ability.
On a lark, I installed a USB wireless adapter and disabled my ethernet adapter and now I can browse fine.
Does that definitely point to a bad ethernet adapter? Or is there something else I can try?
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