Hi y'all!
Here's what happened to my computer : a few days ago there was a very short power cut that lasted 30 secs, which turned my computer off. When the power came back, I had that reflex of turning my computer back on and mysteriously another power cut occurred that lasted about 30 secs as well. Ever since my computer hasn't been able to go on the internet...
I've tried many things :
- make a master reset on the modem (it worked temporarily)
- restart my modem
- cut the power off the modem for 10 secs
- change the wire that connects my pc to the modem
- change from port A to port B on the modem
- restart my pc
- uninstall my Lan card's driver and reinstalling it from the device manager on win 7
The only thing I think is left to try is maybe buying another network card which I am not sure if it would solve my issue.
Also the lights on the modem are all solid.
I have two PCs connected to this modem, one that is mine (the broken one) and the other belongs to my brother, although mine can't have any access to internet, my brother's seems to be working flawlessly. I'm actually writting this thread on his pc.
Another thing that I found really weird is that on the windows taskbar it says that I'm connected to the internet, but when I'm trying to load a random page on the internet, firefox tells me "The connection has timed out".
Oh and by the way, my computer still seems to recognize my Lan card : Realtek PCIe GBE family controller.
Has my Lan card been fried by the power cuts?
hopefully someone here may enlighten me on this!
PC specs, just in case? :
i5 3570k
radeon HD 7870
Asus motherboard P8Z77-V LK
120 ssd OCz vertex 3
1tb HDD
Kingston HyperX 8gb
Corsair power supply TX650
Windows 7 professional 64-bit
Bought all the parts separately and assembled the computer myself.
Here's what happened to my computer : a few days ago there was a very short power cut that lasted 30 secs, which turned my computer off. When the power came back, I had that reflex of turning my computer back on and mysteriously another power cut occurred that lasted about 30 secs as well. Ever since my computer hasn't been able to go on the internet...
I've tried many things :
- make a master reset on the modem (it worked temporarily)
- restart my modem
- cut the power off the modem for 10 secs
- change the wire that connects my pc to the modem
- change from port A to port B on the modem
- restart my pc
- uninstall my Lan card's driver and reinstalling it from the device manager on win 7
The only thing I think is left to try is maybe buying another network card which I am not sure if it would solve my issue.
Also the lights on the modem are all solid.
I have two PCs connected to this modem, one that is mine (the broken one) and the other belongs to my brother, although mine can't have any access to internet, my brother's seems to be working flawlessly. I'm actually writting this thread on his pc.
Another thing that I found really weird is that on the windows taskbar it says that I'm connected to the internet, but when I'm trying to load a random page on the internet, firefox tells me "The connection has timed out".
Oh and by the way, my computer still seems to recognize my Lan card : Realtek PCIe GBE family controller.
Has my Lan card been fried by the power cuts?
hopefully someone here may enlighten me on this!
PC specs, just in case? :
i5 3570k
radeon HD 7870
Asus motherboard P8Z77-V LK
120 ssd OCz vertex 3
1tb HDD
Kingston HyperX 8gb
Corsair power supply TX650
Windows 7 professional 64-bit
Bought all the parts separately and assembled the computer myself.