just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on how this could have happened and a possible fix.
and came home from work tonight, turned my computer on, and discovered that my onboard nic is -- as far as my computer is concerned -- not there 😕 no lights whatsoever on the nic itself, no matter what I plug it into and despite the fact that the cable itself tests good (reheaded it and everything). I don't get a bad driver error or anything in the Windows Device Manager, it's just as if I didn't have a nic at all. I checked the bios to be sure, and the nic is enabled; just to be double-sure, I cleared cmos and checked all the jumpers on the motherboard, and everything checks out.
this same night when I came home, I also discovered that my router/modem was dead (it's the netgear router/modem/firewall box). all the link lights are showing active despite there being nothing plugged into them and the internet light shows a connection, but the power light doesn't turn on. tried resetting it to the factory defaults and just plain rebooting it, but no change.
I was able to plug in my stand-alone DSL modem and connect it to my PC via a USB modem, but obviously, this is not the ideal situation (especially when my roommate wakes up tomorrow and wants an internet connection!)
anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong? writing off my onboard nic and buying a pci nic isn't a huge deal, but this router thing is killing me. I just bought this one a few months ago after my old one kept rebooting itself.
and came home from work tonight, turned my computer on, and discovered that my onboard nic is -- as far as my computer is concerned -- not there 😕 no lights whatsoever on the nic itself, no matter what I plug it into and despite the fact that the cable itself tests good (reheaded it and everything). I don't get a bad driver error or anything in the Windows Device Manager, it's just as if I didn't have a nic at all. I checked the bios to be sure, and the nic is enabled; just to be double-sure, I cleared cmos and checked all the jumpers on the motherboard, and everything checks out.
this same night when I came home, I also discovered that my router/modem was dead (it's the netgear router/modem/firewall box). all the link lights are showing active despite there being nothing plugged into them and the internet light shows a connection, but the power light doesn't turn on. tried resetting it to the factory defaults and just plain rebooting it, but no change.
I was able to plug in my stand-alone DSL modem and connect it to my PC via a USB modem, but obviously, this is not the ideal situation (especially when my roommate wakes up tomorrow and wants an internet connection!)
anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong? writing off my onboard nic and buying a pci nic isn't a huge deal, but this router thing is killing me. I just bought this one a few months ago after my old one kept rebooting itself.
