Laptop Problem, Help
 

I was using my laptop yesterday when there was an error and it shut down windows (XP Pro) so I had to restart obviously. When I restarted my LAN connection is not working.

I get little or no connectivity. I tried Repair, I tried Disable and then Enable. It tries to acquire an IP but will not.

Is my ethernet card fried? Any suggestions?

I do know of one solution…
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ram try restarting a couple more times, my desktop did something similar, I thought I had a bad card and put a known good one in and still no connect, I took the one I thought was bad and put it in another pci slot and it worked, so I thought a bad slot, so I took everything back out and put the orginal back in the same slot and it worked fine and is still working months and months later.. what did this was the power went off and back on a couple times..

Cleo
hehehehe

Baffles me so I'll try another restart I guess.

My PC skills pretty much suck but I have had this happen to me using a PC and creating a new network setting and then deleting the old one is what has worked for me. You might also try right mouse clicking the connection and asking it to repair the connection.

Probably securtiy settings. It may have lost your network key.

Wait - is it doing this on both wireless and wired connections?

Ramster, check the machine using virus checkers and programs like adaware. Many of the bad keyloggers and crap try to bind to the network programs, and in the process, they usually screw it up beyond all understanding. It may require that you uninstall and reinstall the network card itself (software wise) by going through add/remove hardware, removing it, and re-adding it. Keep good notes on all the details before you try this.

scan first, work from there.

Alex

I don't have wireless at home so I cannot tell.

It is having a problem finding an IP so it could be a router problem. I'll try connecting direct to the modem.

Oh, if it's a wired connection, I've had that happen due to my ISP having trouble. Is Katrina visiting you right now? Yesterday's XP error may just be a coincidence.

Sorry for the late response but I did get it fixed.

Must have been something wrong with the router, who the fuck knows.

I unpluged the router and restarted the 2 PCs and my laptop and now they all seem to be connecting. :)