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Modem trouble (pg. 5)
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| Sunsnail |
| Ok, the router isn't part of the problem at the moment... it's not being connected to anything. i think what the problem is is that my computer's ethernet card or whatever you plugged an ethernet cable into is not working. I go into device manager and it shows that it's not working. Any ideas how to fix that? I've tried installing drivers and such. I have mcafee firewall, although its disabled at the moment, and I have windows xp pro. |
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| igottaknow |
DEAR GOD BUY A NEW NETWORK CARD AND LEAVE US ALONE.
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| sw1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sunsnail
Ok, the router isn't part of the problem at the moment... it's not being connected to anything. i think what the problem is is that my computer's ethernet card or whatever you plugged an ethernet cable into is not working. I go into device manager and it shows that it's not working. Any ideas how to fix that? I've tried installing drivers and such. I have mcafee firewall, although its disabled at the moment, and I have windows xp pro. |
Very good. Now we have an idea of what the actual problem might be. Is it actually not working (red "x"), or doesn't have the proper drivers (yellow "!"), or disabled?
You previously mentioned that it was an onboard NIC. Has it been disabled at all - physically (jumpers) or in the BIOS? Was it ever enabled? Check your motherboard manual for info on jumpers and BIOS settings. Sometimes you can just install the driver, other times you have to install the utilities from the motherboard installation CD. Read the motherboard manual as well as any readme.txt-type files in the LAN folder on the CD. |
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| Subey |
1. Change the Eprom on your modem (remember to use an Eprom chip remover, a butter knife won't work)
2. Use the following init String: AT&F&C1&D0
If that doesn't work, then there is probably a line failure on your telemetrics. |
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| Sunsnail |
| quote: | Originally posted by sw1
Very good. Now we have an idea of what the actual problem might be. Is it actually not working (red "x"), or doesn't have the proper drivers (yellow "!"), or disabled?
You previously mentioned that it was an onboard NIC. Has it been disabled at all - physically (jumpers) or in the BIOS? Was it ever enabled? Check your motherboard manual for info on jumpers and BIOS settings. Sometimes you can just install the driver, other times you have to install the utilities from the motherboard installation CD. Read the motherboard manual as well as any readme.txt-type files in the LAN folder on the CD. |
No, it's always been enabled, and it used to work.. I tried stuff from the motherboard CD still doesn;t work.
| quote: | 1. Change the Eprom on your modem (remember to use an Eprom chip remover, a butter knife won't work)
2. Use the following init String: AT&F&C1&D0 |
what?? :wtf: |
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| sw1 |
| That's just an initialization string for telephone modems. It doesn't apply to you. |
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| sw1 |
| I don't know what else you can do. I guess you can try a new PCI NIC card. Any brand name should be fine - LinkSys, D-Link, SMC, etc. It should only cost $10 - $20. |
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| Sunsnail |
| quote: | Originally posted by sw1
I don't know what else you can do. I guess you can try a new PCI NIC card. Any brand name should be fine - LinkSys, D-Link, SMC, etc. It should only cost $10 - $20. |
That's what I'm going to do. Thanks for your help |
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| Subey |
| quote: | Originally posted by sw1
That's just an initialization string for telephone modems. It doesn't apply to you. |
But not just any modem! The creme de la creme! The HST Dual Courier! |
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| Sunsnail |
| K... got a new network card and everything works now. I just didn't want to shell out that $20 if someone could tell me how I could fix the one I had. Thanks for all the help CORe...especiall sw1 |
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