The onboard 10/100 NIC on my laptop (A Hypersonic Aviator AX6. Via K8T400M motherboard) recently died. It claims to be connected at 10 Mbps, as does my switch, but it cannot send or receive data (It used to connect at 100 Mbps). Problem isn't the switch or the cable. I'm not overly concerned about the NIC itself, as my laptop has wireless. However, my XP install is sick and the Windows XP installer now locks on the installing network screen. There seems to be no way to disable the NIC in the BIOS. Anyone know a way around this problem? I've contacted Hypersonic, but it's out of warantee, so unless there's a simple way to disable the NIC, not sure if they'll be of any help. Suppose I could try switching to Linux, which might not be a bad thing.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Edit: Turned over my laptop , openned up the user accessible bays, didn't do much, just put everything back to where it had been, turned the laptop back over, and the port was alive again. Still, if anyone knows how to prevent XP from trying to configure NICs, I'd like to know. I'll undoubtedly be installing XP again on this laptop, eventually. Might not be as fortunate then.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Edit: Turned over my laptop , openned up the user accessible bays, didn't do much, just put everything back to where it had been, turned the laptop back over, and the port was alive again. Still, if anyone knows how to prevent XP from trying to configure NICs, I'd like to know. I'll undoubtedly be installing XP again on this laptop, eventually. Might not be as fortunate then.
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