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anyone had this happen?

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CraigRT

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I was sitting on my PC, talking to a buddy on MSN, when my network dialog box came up with the familiar "network cable unplugged" message, it quickly went away, and then it said it was acquiring IP, and switched back quickly to network cable unplugged... It just did this in an endless loop! WTF!?

I tried switching the spots on the router, no difference, i tried rebooting my PC, no difference.. Both the connection and activity light were just flashing on, and then off, about every 1-2 seconds exactly the same each time..

I had to open up my PC, add a 3COM NIC I had lying around, and low and behold, works fine.

I was using the onboard network on my Soltek SL-K8AN2E-GR motherboard.. looks like the NIC might be toast for whatever reason...

Anyone ever seen such a thing happen? Just wondering what exactly is going on, and if my suspicion is correct.
 
If you're using the nVidia firewall... well, it works extremely well and can keep your system from even renewing its DHCP lease when it expires. 🙂 Try manually assigning your NIC an IP address that jives with your router's scheme (say, 192.168.0.110 subnet 255.255.255.0, with the router's address of 192.168.0.1 as the gateway and your ISP's DNS servers by their IP addresses), and see if it just goes right back to working again. That's on the assumption that you have a typical 192.168.0.x 255.255.255.0 setup like home routers always seem to use.
 
I can't re-enable the NIC, it won't work at all... it just continues to say "network cable unplugged", "acquiring", repeat x infinity. (I can't re-enable it to change settings)

I really don't care that much, because it looks to me like it's gone flakey.. was just wondering if anyone's had this happen. Just FYI I was not using the nV firewall. I have the router configured for that.
 
Huh 😕 Yeah, maybe it went *poof* then. 🙁 You might look in Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer for any signs that it's just a networking problem of some sort. Oh well, here's to our faithful spare NICs :beer:
 
weird eh? Well I would love to hear from someone who's seen something similar.. I'm just curious as to what's going on. I'm not gonna re-install windows or anything if I can use the 3COM card, I just kinda wondered if anyone knew it was dead or not... I most definitely can't seem to access the card's properties or anything at all, (it's disabled and won't re-enable when I try to)

Thanks Mech 🙂 and yes, cheers to spare NIC's! 😀
 
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