Well this weekend is going well.... Had to cancel planned birthday trip down south due to illness, and then to drive the point home it snowed today too
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/sigh.... Cold addled brain needs helpkhaylockFebruary 21 2010, 13:40:47 UTC
Sounds like hardware to me! I'd guess that the network card is what blew up and fried the switch! Easy check - stick a cheapo generic PCI network card in the box alongside the existing network and try that. Bet it works...
See that was my next thought - I was just surprised that the network adapter in the properties section has all these tests you can run, link checking the link/cable/etc and they are all passing.
But yeah... I'll have to try and find a network adapter and enough energy to crawl around on the floor unplugging stuff and fitting it.
Not sure I have one "in stock" - so many computers come with onboard LAN these days, it's been a long while since I've needed a separate card for it.
Oh and all the lights are on as if it has a connection. My other problem, just to throw some more ambiguity into the mix, is that the switch I put in place after the Dlink went poof was swapped out for a reason.... I remember it was kind of flaky - so I could I suppose just be hitting the reason I stopped using that switch in the first place....
Looks like I'll be spending my birthday at the nearest PC World :-/
Weird thing is all the other computers at the moment seem happy - it's just the one running Vista - but I've tried the Vista tricks I've found on the net so far, and it's not really helping.
I'm beginning to think that Vista or this computer don't like the Netgear switch. I've left it sat a long time after a reboot doing nothing, and it has picked up an IP address from DHCP now - and is *very* slowly loading the odd web page (others it just fails and times out) so it looks like I need yet another new switch....
Sigh, that'll be the 2nd or 3rd one we've been through.....
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But yeah... I'll have to try and find a network adapter and enough energy to crawl around on the floor unplugging stuff and fitting it.
Not sure I have one "in stock" - so many computers come with onboard LAN these days, it's been a long while since I've needed a separate card for it.
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Looks like I'll be spending my birthday at the nearest PC World :-/
Weird thing is all the other computers at the moment seem happy - it's just the one running Vista - but I've tried the Vista tricks I've found on the net so far, and it's not really helping.
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I'm beginning to think that Vista or this computer don't like the Netgear switch. I've left it sat a long time after a reboot doing nothing, and it has picked up an IP address from DHCP now - and is *very* slowly loading the odd web page (others it just fails and times out) so it looks like I need yet another new switch....
Sigh, that'll be the 2nd or 3rd one we've been through.....
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