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Faulty ethernet port
10-10-2007 11:09 PM
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Should it be as easy as going into Network Connections, disabling the existing connection, turning off the PC, installing the PCI card, and booting up the PC again? I bet it's not!
If anybody has tried this before, I'd appreciate their thoughts. I've had a quick look on the 'net, but the only related pages I can find are about the problems having two working ethernet ports, with the PC acting as a bridge. This isn't really what I want.
I'm using WinXP-SP2.
Thanks in advance.
Rob
PS: I'm still got getting e-mail notifications of replies to my posts.
Re: Faulty ethernet port
10-10-2007 11:29 PM
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Installing the new PCI NIC should be a doddle. Either Windows will recognise it straight away or will ask for the driver disk that comes with it.
Windows has no problems with multiple NICs as it will just use the connection your network cable is plugged into. You can just disable the one you don't want as well.
Re: Faulty ethernet port
10-10-2007 11:53 PM
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Just in case anybody can think of an alternative solution, here's some more information:
Basically, when I plug the ethernet cable in, the PC connects to the router, and everything appears fine. It's just that every now and again, it will disconnect (giving a "Local Area Connection. A network cable is unplugged" error), and then reconnect straight away.
The router works fine with other equipment, and I have tried a new ethernet cable as well. I've also tried disabling NIS2007, but that didn't help.
Re: Faulty ethernet port
11-10-2007 12:24 AM
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The only option realy is a PCI plug in card. get a decent one like 3Com or Intel with some hardware in it
I just recently moved a computer and pulling out the cables seems to have blown out the power supply and network card. I've never seen anything like that before
It had been running constanly for about a year so i guess some freaky amount of charge had built up in a capacitor and when the power cable was unpluged it decided to earth it's way down the network card.
Pull out the ethernet before the PSU cable
Re: Faulty ethernet port
11-10-2007 7:50 AM
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Thanks for the advice.
Rob
Re: Faulty ethernet port
11-10-2007 11:43 AM
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12-10-2007 1:43 AM
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12-10-2007 4:49 AM
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Re: Faulty ethernet port
12-10-2007 4:14 PM
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It turned out to be a metal stud for screwing the motherboard into the case. Basically the metal panel where the motherboard is attached, had one stud where the RAM pins were shorting each other. The ram was fine (and has been ever since) and once I unscrewed the stud, and put the motherboard back in, the ethernet socket was fine.
I don't know why it was intermittent because presumably the contacts were shorted all the time - not intermittently. Either way, it wiggling the ethernet cable around had no effect. Once I took the stud off the motherboard panel it was fine.
Might be worth you checking your system.
Re: Faulty ethernet port
13-10-2007 2:52 PM
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Re: Faulty ethernet port
18-10-2007 7:44 PM
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I'll have a quick look at how I put the PC together when I "built" it a few years ago, but the port's only recently been a problem.
I've always avoided USB-Ethernet cables, because of the extra processing power needed to use USB. OK, it might not be much, but it all adds up.
I'll probably end up installing the new PCI Ethernet card that I bought a few weeks ago. It seems like the easiest option.
Thanks again for your help.
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