Home Network Woes...

[gUEv]

after moving a computer to another room and changing network cables ran under the house, my secondary machine no longer has networking functionality

i thought this would be a painless process...i just moved the computer to the new room and connected the new cable to the machine...easy right?

Well, as soon as i booted up I notice no cute little LAN icon in my tray...wtf?

So I look for my network card, and its not even installed..?

I unplugged the card and plugged it back in (thinking back..it might have been in a different PCI slot then before..will this matter?)

It was recognized, and as any half witted user would do, i installed the drivers.

Great, now i retyped all of my TCP/IP info.
but yet...nothing but 404's
i tried using my other computer's IP addy but was still net(work)less...

At first i thought it was the cable itself, but after examining everything, i determined it was a-ok.
I tried plugging it into different ports in the modem, no avail..

When i first entered the TCP/IP info though, it gave me a message saying that another computer on the network was using the same IP, but was hidden from view because it was a legacy device or not connected.

So...how do i go about removing the old connection or at least make it viewable?

Any other adivce?


Any help appreciated, thanks gang!

 

[Santa]

I am not sure what the exact problem but to remove a ghosted or orphaned device go into safe mode and then uninstall it from the device manager

 

[bobcpg]

"format c:\" usualy works for me

 

[cipher00]

Hmm. It's possible the NIC went kablooey. I'm assuming it lights up and all. Have you tried/can you try swapping to a new NIC?

 

[ScottMac]

Try another cable . If all you did was a continuity check, the cable can be conducting, but not suitable for even 10meg Ethernet.

If you overstretched the cable, severely kinked it, or didn't terminate it properly, it won't work (but may still show end-to-end continuity).

You've got better than an 80% chance that it's a bad cable.


Good Luck

Scott

 

[ViperXX]

Right click on my computer select properties and go into the device manager. Delete all ethernet adapters and reboot. If your computer finds your NIC then insert the floopy and install the drivers. If it doesn't find it go back into device manager select the ethernet adapter it will have a question mark by it. Right click and choose properties than re-install driver, choose search for driver put a chreck in the floopy drive box insert your cards driver disk and browse to the correct operating system and select the .inf file and click ok. After installation assign the IP, subnet, gateway and DNS server addresses.