Need help fixing 2 laptops for work

Airsofter

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Jan 9, 2006
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Hi, my company just bought 2 Compaq V2000's for the field. I would have personally ordered something a little better but they were cheap and aren't going to be used very much. The laptops don't have Wireless, but the onboard ethernet won't work on either machine.

I tried plugging them into my home network and made sure it was configured properly, but it said it had limited or no connectivity. It did recognize the cable which is a good sign. At the office, one of them worked but the other one had the same problem.

I need to get these working soon. I doubt both of them have defective ethernet so it must be a configuration issue. I tried the basic troubleshooting and couldn't find anything wrong.

I had the same problem with my Neo2 Platinum motherboard. The Nvidia ethernet could never acquire a signal address, but the onboard Realtek Giga Lan worked perfectly.

Any ideas on how to resolve the issue? Thanks for the help.
 

Sforsyth

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My dad also had a PC 900 Celeron that did this I thought it was the iethernet card so I switched it and it was doing the same thing, I Had to use a router to get it to work right.

Did you figure it out?