Hi,
My office PC is an IBM Thinkcenter P4 based machine with onboard Broadcom LAN, running on XP SP2. I recently installed an IEEE1394A PCI adapter(NEC chipset), and then suddenly my network stopped working completely. I'm not sure if it's the adapter that caused it, because even after I removed the adapter and did a system restore to a few days back, it still didn't work.
When I run ipconfig, it just shows "Windows IP Configuration" and then nothing.
The network icon on the system tray shows that it's connected and running at 100Mbps.
The NIC properties shows "connected, firewalled"
When I click on "repair", the following message pops up:
"Windows could not finish repairing the problem because the following action cannot be completed: Failed to query TCP/IP settings of the connections. Cannot proceed"
Under networking properties, all the usual suspects are already installed(TCP/IP, File & Printer Sharing, etc).
If I boot up into Safe Mode w/Networking, then networking works.
I also tried booting up into my Mandriva 2008 installation and it also works, so it's definitely not a hardware issue.
I tried uninstalling the Broadcom NIC device but it just hung there and then stopped responding, so I had to cancel it.
Any ideas on what might be wrong, and how to fix it?
Thanks.
My office PC is an IBM Thinkcenter P4 based machine with onboard Broadcom LAN, running on XP SP2. I recently installed an IEEE1394A PCI adapter(NEC chipset), and then suddenly my network stopped working completely. I'm not sure if it's the adapter that caused it, because even after I removed the adapter and did a system restore to a few days back, it still didn't work.
When I run ipconfig, it just shows "Windows IP Configuration" and then nothing.
The network icon on the system tray shows that it's connected and running at 100Mbps.
The NIC properties shows "connected, firewalled"
When I click on "repair", the following message pops up:
"Windows could not finish repairing the problem because the following action cannot be completed: Failed to query TCP/IP settings of the connections. Cannot proceed"
Under networking properties, all the usual suspects are already installed(TCP/IP, File & Printer Sharing, etc).
If I boot up into Safe Mode w/Networking, then networking works.
I also tried booting up into my Mandriva 2008 installation and it also works, so it's definitely not a hardware issue.
I tried uninstalling the Broadcom NIC device but it just hung there and then stopped responding, so I had to cancel it.
Any ideas on what might be wrong, and how to fix it?
Thanks.
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