Urgent problem with gf's PC.

I'd have smashed my computer up by now if I were you, The green light flashing means that there is an active data connection I think.

Has the mouse unplugged the modem?
 
No, because I'm using the same internet just from the wireless, same modem and stuff.

I went into Network Connections and there's nothing there. No LAN connections or any other connections.
 
Tried everything I can and it still won't connect.

I can't find an ethernet connection on the PC, at all!

Is there a solution to this? It was working fine before this GPU shizzle.
 
Bump!

We have a telephone line going into the modem, I then connect to it using Wireless from my laptop.

She then has an Ethernet cable going from the modem to the back of the PC.

There is a green flashing light at the back of the PC when the Ethernet is connected.

In network settings there's only an old setting of a Dial Up modem which now doesn't work, I've looked in device manager and I see nothing to do with an Ethernet cable, at all.

I need a solution or guidance! GUIDE ME!
 
Is the Ethernet port onboard? If not turn off, remove it, boot back up, turn off, put it back in but use a different pci slot. Look carefully in Device Manager, instead of looking under "Network Adapters", look in "Other Devices" you may find it with a weird name or named "Unknown Device" and a yellow icon next to it if the drivers are messed up. Finally, if the green light is flashing, data is being send/received and the connection is active, your problem almost certainly is a software issue rather than a hardware one.

EDIT: Sorry forgot to mention, there is a chance that the port may be disabled in your BIOS, id definatly make this my next port of call if you havnt already tried.....Good luck
 
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WARHURYEAH said:
Bump!

We have a telephone line going into the modem, I then connect to it using Wireless from my laptop.

She then has an Ethernet cable going from the modem to the back of the PC.

There is a green flashing light at the back of the PC when the Ethernet is connected.

In network settings there's only an old setting of a Dial Up modem which now doesn't work, I've looked in device manager and I see nothing to do with an Ethernet cable, at all.

I need a solution or guidance! GUIDE ME!
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I don't think anyone has mentioned this but when you disabled everything in the BIOS trying to get it to boot did you also disable the onboard ethernet/lan?
 
I went through all the options in the BIOS and couldn't find anything to do with an Ethernet port :/

I started in safemode and looked through the device manager and couldn't find anything.

In network there is just WAN (IP,IPX etc.) and other stuff not related to the Ethernet cable :/

What I DID do is uninstall nVidea drivers after I had installed the ATi ones, that's the only change, before that the internet worked fine and dandy.

Where would the onboard Ethernet thingy be in BIOS?
 
Have you tried reinstalling the motherboard drivers? or downloading latest to a usb drive to install? they will contain drivers for it for sure.
 
If you cant find it in the BIOS, there should be an option somewhere to the effect of "Load Default Settings" or "Load Optimized Settings" in which the BIOS will be set to default....The way is is when brand new, using a setting like this would automatically enable the use of the Ethernet port. Worth a try?
 
I reloaded the Optimized Settings and nothing shows up at all.

I'm trying to find an update for the BIOS on the internet now.

If it still doesn't work, would buying a network card and connecting from that do the trick?
 
WARHURYEAH said:
I reloaded the Optimized Settings and nothing shows up at all.

I'm trying to find an update for the BIOS on the internet now.

If it still doesn't work, would buying a network card and connecting from that do the trick?
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When you uninstalled the NVidia drivers was it just the graphics driver or all NVidia drivers (including chipset, LAN etc)? If so you need to download the chipset drivers from NVidia's site for your board, probably NForce4/5 based. (I may be wrong as i've not had an NVidia chipset motherboard).
 
If the drivers werent present it would still show up in DM, OP says he cant find it in Network Connections or DM.

Have you tried the Network Setup Wizard to create another connection for your broadband? Run command prompt and type "ipconfig /all" which will show if your network adapter has an address or not.
 
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kdouglas1987 said:
If the drivers werent present it would still show up in DM, OP says he cant find it in Network Connections or DM.

Have you tried the Network Setup Wizard to create another connection for your broadband? Run command prompt and type "ipconfig /all" which will show if your network adapter has an address or not.
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Good point, most likely its been disabled in the BIOS, unusual problem though
 
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