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rubenski
Guest
Hi,
XP says my LAN cable is unplugged while it is plugged! I use 2 computers and (hence) 1 crosscable. I have tried everything:
- new NICs (ethernetcards)
- manualy setting NIC speed
- replacing the crosscable
- un- and reïnstalling NICs
When i run ipconfig in DOS it recognizes my NIC, but says: Media Disconnected about the device. Windows recognizes and properly installs the card. It shows no errors in Device Manager.
The only option i have left is the quote below from a message i read in a Microsoft newsgroup. My NIC is indeed installed twice, but i can't get the 'wrong' one uninstalled.
<Quote>
If you look in device manager you will see all of the
hardwire devices installed in the computer, right?? Wrong! As I just
discovered there are also hidden devices (click view, then show hidden
devices). It was here that I found numerous drivers related to all of the
various NIC cards that I had tried as well as for the various PCI slot
positions I had tried them in! I had 3 copies of one driver, 2 of another
and the one from the NIC I was currently using. I tried to uninstall these
not needed 'hidden' drivers but couldn't. You have to re install the device
in the same PCI slot it was in originally, let windows detect it and then
uninstall the visible copy of the driver. The hidden driver then disappears
also. After doing this for all of the NIC drivers listed I got down to the
drivers for the NIC I wanted to use.
Every thing works fine now!!!!
Any ideas??????
Greetings,
Ruben
XP says my LAN cable is unplugged while it is plugged! I use 2 computers and (hence) 1 crosscable. I have tried everything:
- new NICs (ethernetcards)
- manualy setting NIC speed
- replacing the crosscable
- un- and reïnstalling NICs
When i run ipconfig in DOS it recognizes my NIC, but says: Media Disconnected about the device. Windows recognizes and properly installs the card. It shows no errors in Device Manager.
The only option i have left is the quote below from a message i read in a Microsoft newsgroup. My NIC is indeed installed twice, but i can't get the 'wrong' one uninstalled.
<Quote>
If you look in device manager you will see all of the
hardwire devices installed in the computer, right?? Wrong! As I just
discovered there are also hidden devices (click view, then show hidden
devices). It was here that I found numerous drivers related to all of the
various NIC cards that I had tried as well as for the various PCI slot
positions I had tried them in! I had 3 copies of one driver, 2 of another
and the one from the NIC I was currently using. I tried to uninstall these
not needed 'hidden' drivers but couldn't. You have to re install the device
in the same PCI slot it was in originally, let windows detect it and then
uninstall the visible copy of the driver. The hidden driver then disappears
also. After doing this for all of the NIC drivers listed I got down to the
drivers for the NIC I wanted to use.
Every thing works fine now!!!!
Any ideas??????
Greetings,
Ruben