I have a desktop in addition to a laptop. The broadband moden I have is hooked up to a router for wireless. Whether or not I use the router, my desktop would not recognize that the ethernet cord was plugged into it. I went into Device Manager, and the ethernet card is still listed there, but everytime I start up windows, it is automatically disabled. When I re-enable it, it never finishes starting up, it seems to get stuck in the IP Address part. Once it made it completely through startup, but still wouldn't connect to the internet once. I have not made any changes to my computer that could cause this, in fact I rarely use that computer at all except to print something. Do I need to update my drivers, and if so, how could I do that without connecting to the internet? At this point I'm considering just reformatting Windows XP. Any other suggestions?
2007-12-12 05:10:50 · 6 answers · asked by Brian 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
You net card may have died too, but probably just the drivers need resetting. From your Control Panel, click on Internet Properties and select the Connections tab. On this screen there is a LAN setting tab. Click on this and make sure the Automatic Proxy Connection is selected. You can also try to use the Connection wizard on the Connections page to walk you through setting up your connection. And check that the ethernet cable has not become damaged somewhere along the way from the router to the computer.
2007-12-12 05:45:47 · answer #1 · answered by computer doctor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check in the properties of the connection that you don't have any weird settings, asking for IPs the router can't provide, for example.
Depending on which OS you have it will be a different path to get to that, so you can either look up [changing TCP/IP properties "Windows XP"] or whatever OS you have.
2007-12-12 05:15:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try downloading new drivers first. and just to get it up, keep it disabled in the device manager. Have a friend download it for you and burn to cd, or do it at your library near you. After you download it, uninstall the driver, and install the one from the cd.
2007-12-12 05:26:25 · answer #3 · answered by KL1967 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Click on 'Start> Run>' and type 'cmd'. This will open a command window. Type 'ipconfig /all' to see if your card is there. Type 'ipconfig /release' then 'ipconfig /renew'. That may do it.
2007-12-12 05:17:15 · answer #4 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you should teach on DHCP on the router and tell the desktops to apply DHCP to acquire their IP addresses. Then the router will each and every provide them unique IP addresses so as that they are going to the two have the skill to get entry to the internet concurrently.
2016-11-26 01:11:36 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't reformat man, never!!
2007-12-12 05:24:45 · answer #6 · answered by Emro 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋