intermittent wireless connection? No LAN connection

[conorvansmack]

I added a new video card last night and had to sacrifice a PCI slot because of its 2-slot cooler. I'm down to two slots which I need for my sound card and eSATA card (backup HD). I figured I could take out my wireless card and just use the onboard LAN as I had in the past, so I uninstalled the software for the wireless card and the card itself.

After connecting all the cables and making sure the port is enabled in my BIOS, I tried connecting. Windows says that it's connected and the lights on the router blink, but I don't get any traffic. I tried going straight from the cable modem, but I couldn't get anything that way either.

I reinstalled the wireless card and noticed that I was getting intermittent traffic, which could just be the weirdness of wireless. I tried disabling the wireless and connecting through the LAN, but didn't get anything. Aside from a dead LAN port, are there reasons that I would not be getting any traffic when I'm on a wired connection?

 

[JackMDS]

Check the wired Network settings, http://www.ezlan.net/debug.html

 

[conorvansmack]

Thanks for the link. I'll make sure I run through step 3 when I get home.

 

[conorvansmack]

Ok, I went through all those steps and didn't get anything. The tech support guy for my router (Buffalo WHR-G54S) ran me through some IP configs and a lot of pinging through the cmd prompt, but that didn't get anything going either. He recommended reinstalling Windows. I think that's a little drastic, but I'm not sure what else to do. Is it possible that my ethernet port is bad? Does reinstalling Windows sound like a good idea?

 

[rickeo]

Its probably not a router issue, but just to be safe, update the firmware, or if you're up to date, just re-install it. The I would suggest possibly updating you're mobo's bios? Probably cant hurt.

 

[conorvansmack]

Right, I've disconnected the router completely and I'm connected straight from the modem right now. I'll take a run at the most recent bios, but it's already running that.