Ok, I know you are going to say "format c:" I got that and it's VERY close to what I am about to do here. BUT I wanna see if anyone else has ever had this problem?
I am on a Dell 8300, 1GB RAM, WinXP Home.. 2.8 GHz, blah blah blah. that's out of the way.
We had a storm last night and I shut my computers down. right before I shut them down, I heard a pop, so I knew something was fucked, but wasn't sure what.
I turn my pc back on and it appears that my network card (on board) has been fried, my pc doesn't even see it anymore. So I go out and buy a new one, get it home and this fucker won't read that one either. So I assume it is my router..... unhook everything from it, put in my new backup router. nope, still won't work.
I take out the cords and hook them directly into the cable modem.... NOPE, still won't even think of letting me forceit to see anything network related at all.
NOW, this is where it gets weird.... all the other pcs in the house can access the network but not connect to the internet or any other computers because this is my admin system.. all but my work system. I can take any one of them and plug them into the modem and they work, so I know itisn't the modem. BUT none will work if I plug them into the router that is plugged into THIS system.
I take the new network card and hook it into the other computer and it works fine, it sees it there and will install it.
Basically this work pc I have will not see ANYTHING related to a network card or network settings. BUT everything else works fine.
Has anyone else ever had this happen and if so what the hell do I do to fix it? Is it likely if I DO format it, it is going to fix the issue or is there something more fucked than I am able to comprehend? I don't want to format it if it is just going to be something else, but I will if this will fix this problem.
I am on a Dell 8300, 1GB RAM, WinXP Home.. 2.8 GHz, blah blah blah. that's out of the way.
We had a storm last night and I shut my computers down. right before I shut them down, I heard a pop, so I knew something was fucked, but wasn't sure what.
I turn my pc back on and it appears that my network card (on board) has been fried, my pc doesn't even see it anymore. So I go out and buy a new one, get it home and this fucker won't read that one either. So I assume it is my router..... unhook everything from it, put in my new backup router. nope, still won't work.
I take out the cords and hook them directly into the cable modem.... NOPE, still won't even think of letting me forceit to see anything network related at all.
NOW, this is where it gets weird.... all the other pcs in the house can access the network but not connect to the internet or any other computers because this is my admin system.. all but my work system. I can take any one of them and plug them into the modem and they work, so I know itisn't the modem. BUT none will work if I plug them into the router that is plugged into THIS system.
I take the new network card and hook it into the other computer and it works fine, it sees it there and will install it.
Basically this work pc I have will not see ANYTHING related to a network card or network settings. BUT everything else works fine.
Has anyone else ever had this happen and if so what the hell do I do to fix it? Is it likely if I DO format it, it is going to fix the issue or is there something more fucked than I am able to comprehend? I don't want to format it if it is just going to be something else, but I will if this will fix this problem.
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