Network Adapters missing?

[spindrift13]

This morning or last night I may have recieved a bad update from MS. This afternoon my network connections dissapeared
and I see that my network devices (including the new ethernet adapter I installed to fix this) have a yellow icon with exclamation.
I have read a lot of forums and I already uninstalled and reinstalled the hardware and drivers. Is my mother board shot
or can this really be fixed? Is it a registry thing?

All help is appreciated

Ray

 

[dokk2]

Well for what it's worth,,remove your NIC card uninstall the drivers and then go to WWW.MAJORGEEKS.COM and look around for a preferably free registry cleaner,AND if you have automatic updates on turn it off,most of their updates are for their own products to run well with their os,the only auto update that I am comfortable with is my anti-v,I am running xp with sp2 and no other updates...It's not so much that their update may be bad ,,I think that some ongoing setups do not work well when updated on the fly,supposed to but could,would,should,,,, NOT..

 

[swifty_morgan]

Before you put your new card in did you try and fix the on board by inserting the mother board disc and running the driver for it ?

 

[spindrift13]

I tried to find the right disk but hopefully I can find it today. I have registry mechanic somewhere so I will try that. Is it ok if I leave
the second network adapter in there for now?

will it work to fix the registry before re-installing, I will try it and get back to you.

 

[spindrift13]

can I just find the drivers on the net?