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hlliw
Posted 10/5/2009 6:45:07 PM





Hey all - having a rather frustrating experience with my computer.

I'm on Vista x64 with an ASUS P5N-SLI mobo and a Realtek RTL8139/810x
NIC.

The onboard ethernet stopped working on my mobo, so I bought a cheap
OEM NIC and installed it earlier today. The modem is reading it fine -
the PC link light is illuminated - but Vista seems to think that there's
nothing plugged into it.

In accordance with other people having this issue, I went into my BIOS
and disabled everything I could - namely the 1394 onboard firewire - but
nothing has worked. When I disabled the Nvidia LAN controller in the
BIOS, the computer was able to communicate with the network sort of -
but for whatever reason, was still unable to connect fully or to the
internet. It was giving me errors about assigning the IP, resetting the
router, etc.

Any ideas?


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hlliw
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Tae Song
Posted 10/7/2009 6:45:09 AM




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