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vulcan1   02-19-2009 at 07:21:30 PM

All of a sudden, I seem to be "missing" my network card on my computer.

I came home yesterday to find that the internet wasn't working. From the command prompt, I ran IPCONFIG only to find the phrase, "Windows IP Configuration" and then nothing else listed. I checked the hardware devices and had nothing in error state or warning state, but then suddenly realized...that there was no network adaptor/card listed! It is integrated onto the motherboard, not a separate part.

Any ideas on what I can do to solve this? Networking and such isn't my thing, so this has me stumpted.

Thanks!

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lotussama   02-19-2009 at 10:13:31 PM
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vulcan1 wrote :

All of a sudden, I seem to be "missing" my network card on my computer.

I came home yesterday to find that the internet wasn't working. From the command prompt, I ran IPCONFIG only to find the phrase, "Windows IP Configuration" and then nothing else listed. I checked the hardware devices and had nothing in error state or warning state, but then suddenly realized...that there was no network adaptor/card listed! It is integrated onto the motherboard, not a separate part.

Any ideas on what I can do to solve this? Networking and such isn't my thing, so this has me stumpted.

Thanks!



Try reinstalling from your driver disc.

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ironhide   02-19-2009 at 11:03:09 PM
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Were you able to check the adapter status on the device manager?

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vulcan1   02-20-2009 at 12:19:29 AM
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I tried re-installing the driver, but the installation disk stops before installation of the driver and says, "Please shut down and plug Realtek PCIE card to complete the installation." As I said, this is a motherboard integrated card, so I'm at a loss as to what to do if it is not being detected at all.

The adapter status is completely missing in the device manager. Not even errors or anything. Just hours before this, the internet worked fine on the computer. I had not done any work on it. Oh, and I had not done any updates either. (DId the normal virus and spyware search with clean results) Did I just have a component go bad??? This rig is barely a year old!


Message edited by vulcan1 on 02-20-2009 at 12:20:52 AM
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lotussama   02-20-2009 at 12:25:09 AM
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Very interesting problem. Chuck it up to weirdness and go drop in a $20 NIC, that's my advice.

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ironhide   02-20-2009 at 12:40:15 AM
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You should try first a system restore.It might work!

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ironhide   02-20-2009 at 12:40:17 AM
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You should try first a system restore.It might work!

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vulcan1   02-20-2009 at 01:14:08 AM
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I'll try that and see.

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vulcan1   02-20-2009 at 07:15:57 PM
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Thanks for all of your replies; I really do appreciate it!

I tried a system restore to a few days ago with no results. I tried another one to a week ago and same thing.

I'm strongly suspect that the component died. I already have another network card I can install tonght and (hopefully) just be done with it. I am a little frustrated that I haven't pinpointed the cause yet, though. It still feels like something might be lurking in the background that might affect something else, you know?

I have NEVER had a component just all of a sudden go missing all together. It's just bizzare.

I'll write more after the new card is installed. Obviously, highest and best would still be to have the original work, so if anyone has any other ideas, I'm certainly all ears. (P.S. I did submit the issue to Gigabyte but haven't heard back yet.)

My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Quad Core 775 Intel P35 Express 1333FSB DDR2-1066 PCI.e Motherboard. I've had absolutely no problems until now.

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partyman973   02-22-2009 at 04:58:11 PM
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I had the exact same problem you did Vulcan. I did what one of the other posters did. Had a spare Rosewill nic card laying around. SO I threw that in. Let me know what you find. I just assumed the onboard nic went bad.

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