lazer_viking
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A while back I got a new motherboard, CPU, RAM, and Vista. Pretty much new everything.
I put it all together and it worked nicely
But a day later the wired LAN stops working. I could tell the adapter knew when it was plugged in and stuff. Like I could unplug the power to router and Windows would say "Local Area Connect 1 has been disconnected!" or something like that. But it wouldn't ever connect to the internet. So I was just like screw it... so I pulled out an old PCI wireless adapter, and that worked fine under Vista.
Then I got tired of Vista because it was crashing all my game :\
So I installed XP, thinking my wired LAN adapter would be fixed! But it still wasn't.. and worse yet, XP didn't even recognize it as a piece of hardware. It's not even in the device manager list. So I was like whatever I'll continue to use wireless. So that worked for about a month. Then this morning I fired up utorrent as I always do before heading out the door and I'm sitting there reading some news or something when all the sudden I get this tooltip in the bottom right of my screen that says "Wireless Network not connect..." and I was like well I don't have time for this so I walked out the door. When I came home, it still wasn't working. My laptop, which is on the same wireless network still works. My computer can see the network, but it can't connect to it. It knows it's there, but when I try to connect it just says "Waiting on the network..." for a few minutes and then gives up...
Any ideas???
1) How can I fix the wired adapter? Or is it a sure thing that it's dead for good? (it's the built in one on the P5N-E SLI)
2) If I can't make the wired work, how can I make the wireless work?
Thanks in advance!
I put it all together and it worked nicely
But a day later the wired LAN stops working. I could tell the adapter knew when it was plugged in and stuff. Like I could unplug the power to router and Windows would say "Local Area Connect 1 has been disconnected!" or something like that. But it wouldn't ever connect to the internet. So I was just like screw it... so I pulled out an old PCI wireless adapter, and that worked fine under Vista.
Then I got tired of Vista because it was crashing all my game :\
So I installed XP, thinking my wired LAN adapter would be fixed! But it still wasn't.. and worse yet, XP didn't even recognize it as a piece of hardware. It's not even in the device manager list. So I was like whatever I'll continue to use wireless. So that worked for about a month. Then this morning I fired up utorrent as I always do before heading out the door and I'm sitting there reading some news or something when all the sudden I get this tooltip in the bottom right of my screen that says "Wireless Network not connect..." and I was like well I don't have time for this so I walked out the door. When I came home, it still wasn't working. My laptop, which is on the same wireless network still works. My computer can see the network, but it can't connect to it. It knows it's there, but when I try to connect it just says "Waiting on the network..." for a few minutes and then gives up...
Any ideas???
1) How can I fix the wired adapter? Or is it a sure thing that it's dead for good? (it's the built in one on the P5N-E SLI)
2) If I can't make the wired work, how can I make the wireless work?
Thanks in advance!