SP2 fried my nic

[kojak61]

Here is a reason not to, my onboard via nic no loger works. It is reconized by windows, but no longer sends or reacives packets. This was after I installed it and my pc would not load windows and said it was missing a file. So I ran repair and it fixed that problem, but nic still would not work. Formated hard drive and reinstalled sp1. And still no luck. Going to get a new nic today. Be carefull with sp2.

 

[MrChad]

Could be a coincidence. My hard drive happened to die around the same time I installed a new video card, but I don't think the two incidents were related.

 

[Nothinman]

The chances of SP2 killing a piece of hardware are extremely slim, especially a NIC. A monitor would be more believable since older monitors did whatever they were told and you could blow them up by giving them settings beyind their capability.

 

[mikecel79]

The chances of it killing your NIC are nill to none. I'm willing to bet on coincidence here.

 

[Polar2002]

My nic stopped working after I installed sp2, too. Funny thing is that both my dual boot (win98 and winxp) stopped working. I image both os back before sp2 install and now the nic works again in both os.

My other computer with sp2 worked with the nic. But when I restarted the next day, the nic stopped working, too. I image the os back to sp1a and the nic worked.

Needless to say, I am not installing sp2 on any other computers until others fixed ths problem.

 

[mikecel79]

Originally posted by: Polar2002
My nic stopped working after I installed sp2, too. Funny thing is that both my dual boot (win98 and winxp) stopped working. I image both os back before sp2 install and now the nic works again in both os.

My other computer with sp2 worked with the nic. But when I restarted the next day, the nic stopped working, too. I image the os back to sp1a and the nic worked.

Needless to say, I am not installing sp2 on any other computers until others fixed ths problem.

How did you verify the NIC was not working? If you applied a SP in WinXP it would have zero effect on Win98. That would be a hardware problem.

 

[Ogi]

mine went out for a while, i tinkered w/ the network settings and all was well again

Ogi

 

[Sunner]

Funny, I actually had a slight network problem on a box that I installed SP2 on.
It certainly didn't take it out, as Nothinman and mikecel79 said, the chances of a service packing taking out a NIC would be nill.
I did however lose some network connectivity for no apparent reason.
My mail was still working, most network connections were unavailable, and I couldn't ping some boxes.
I didn't find any kind of pattern wrt what was lost and what was not, however I didn't have the time to troubleshoot, and a reboot solved the problem.

Still, it's never happened before, the NIC is an Intel eepro100 so it's not exactly a POS.
Wonder if there's something funny with the networking under SP2?

 

[doan]

Have you tried clearing the CMOS on you motherboard?

 

[salaku]

May be the SP2 firewall thingy causing any problem here!!.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: mikecel79

Originally posted by: Polar2002
My nic stopped working after I installed sp2, too. Funny thing is that both my dual boot (win98 and winxp) stopped working. I image both os back before sp2 install and now the nic works again in both os.

My other computer with sp2 worked with the nic. But when I restarted the next day, the nic stopped working, too. I image the os back to sp1a and the nic worked.

Needless to say, I am not installing sp2 on any other computers until others fixed ths problem.

How did you verify the NIC was not working? If you applied a SP in WinXP it would have zero effect on Win98. That would be a hardware problem.

It's possible, however unlikely, that updated drivers supplied to MS by the NIC chipset OEM, might cause the serial EEPROM on the NIC to get re-written, and subsequently cause issues in other OSes that were installed on the same machine.

I know that certain "Crystal Semiconductor" audio drivers on Win9x used to mess with the onboard config EEPROM too, so it's not out of the question entirely.

It does seems strange though; my guess is that there are perhaps some updated dodgy drivers for that particular NIC chipset, or perhaps the in-built drivers are older than the relatively up-to-date ones that were already installed, and reverting to the in-box drivers from SP2 caused some issues or put the chip into a funny state that could only be fixed by a power-cycle. (Then again, I thought that SP2 was supposed to leave updated OEM hardware drivers alone, but who knows.)

 

[bluehorizon]

Clear the BIOS via the jumper on your motherboard. After doing so, your NIC will work fine.

 

[subbuhere]

I have the same issue here. I applied SP2, and my network goes out. I roll it back using the uninstall, and it still doesn't work. I reapply the SP2 and then try the tweaks that others suggested (checking all the boxes in the execptions tab), but still no success. But I have a VMWare's virtual machine on my system, and I set the network to bridge the virtual NIC to the physical adaptor. While I cannot access the internet from my box, I can access all network functionality thru my vitrtual machine, which has a virtual NIC bridged to the very same physical NIC! I am sending this mail from my virtual machine now. Any thoughts on getting back network access to my system? :-(.

 

[kojak61]

I took out my cmos battery and unpluged my pc for 45mins. Then did a repair on xp. Now my nic is back. Not sure what happen, I install sp2 and then my pc went nuts. Maybe it was a coincidence or maybe not.....