Problem with NIC after MB replacement

[amheck]

Hi gang,

I have a P4 WinXP pro system. Was up and running fine with an Intel 10/100 PCI NIC thru a Linksys 8 port router until I flashed my motherboard bios with the wrong version (don't ask). Anyway, I sent my MB to Gigabyte to happily re-flashed the bios (for free even) and I just got it back today. I put the PC back together and everything is working except my internet connection.

I have 2 RJ45 ports in my office - 1 for my PC and 1 for my work laptop. I have switched ports in the wall and cables going to the PC. Both work in the laptop and not in the PC. I even just went out and bought a new D-Link NIC just now, but same problem. I'm thinking it's a problem with the PC as the same cable and port in the wall work with another computer.

ipconfig /renew gives me "an error occured while renewing interface LOCAL AREA CONECTION 3: An operation was attempted on something is not a socket".

ipconfig /all gives me a 169.254.254.163, not the 10. addresses that my Linksys DHCP router gives out.

Any help would be much apprecaited. I'm totally stumped and this is really frustrating. I've trying moving the card from 1 PCI slot to another, too.

Thanks, Aaron

 

[skyking]

did you "remove" the NIC from the device manager?
any time you move one to a new slot, it is a good practice to remove it fom the device manager, and reboot the computer. Windows will install it again on bootup.

 

[amheck]

Yeah, I did remove it from the device manager. Just for kicks, this am, I removed the card from device manager. Shut the PC down and removed the card totally and rebooted back up. Now, I'm good with no NIC card what so ever. So I shutdown again, install the card, and boot up. Windows finds the new card and installs it and everything seems to be ok, except that I'm still having the problems as mentioned above. Both green lights are on the NIC. Just can't seem to renew the IP address. I'm still getting the socket error.

One thing I did notice was that now in my network properties, it's called "Local Area Connection 4", whereas before it was #3. When I click on the properties of the Intel card, it's listed as "Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter #3". I don't know where all of these numbers are coming from.

Any ideas gang?

Aaron

 

[skyking]

I don't know where all of these numbers are coming from

Windows increments network connections like that. I am up to 11 with all the testing I have done.