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I upgraded from xp home to XP Pro, but it seems like a downgrade right now. I lost the ability to connect to the net from my desktop. I still have wireless connectivity for my laptop so I know it's not my cable modem or router. I've run the connection wizard to completion but no connection shows up in My Network Places. I reset the modem and reset the router, but that did not help. I ran installation again. Of course I can't download any drivers or updates because I have no internet connection. When I check hardware through device manager, no modem is displayed. I've also lost sound and my graphics card (nVidea). Les |
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"LaughingFox" <LaughingFox@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:70B6DE7A-1670-4180-92B0-877996183450@microsoft.com... > I upgraded from xp home to XP Pro, but it seems like a downgrade right now. > I lost the ability to connect to the net from my desktop. I still have > wireless connectivity for my laptop so I know it's not my cable modem or > router. I've run the connection wizard to completion but no connection shows > up in My Network Places. I reset the modem and reset the router, but that did > not help. I ran installation again. Of course I can't download any drivers > or updates because I have no internet connection. When I check hardware > through device manager, no modem is displayed. I've also lost sound and my > graphics card (nVidea). > Les Sounds like the motherboard drivers are gone, if you've lost network, sound and graphics. Did you get a disk with drivers with the system? How, exactly, do you connect? Normally, if there is a modem and a router, you connect an straight-through ethernet cable from a switch port on the router to the ethernet card on the PC. If you use a crossover cable, you will not get a connection. Go to Start, Run, and type cmd. In the Command Prompt window, type ipconfig and press enter. This should give you some information about the state of the network card. ipconfig /release should set the displayed ip addresses to 0.0.0.0, and ipconfig /renew should pick up a refreshed address from the router. If you see anythign referring to "autoconfiguration", you're not connecting to the router properly. Sometimes a power-down restart will help, but you have to have the network card drivers installed. If you're connecting in this way, you should actually be looking at the network card in Device Manager, not for a modem. If you don't see the card displayed or it has an exclamation mark, that's a problem. HTH -pk |
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Go to the computer/motherboard manufacturer, download, save and run all of the motherboard drivers.. -- Mike Hall MS-MVP windows Shell/User "LaughingFox" <LaughingFox@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:70B6DE7A-1670-4180-92B0-877996183450@microsoft.com... >I upgraded from xp home to XP Pro, but it seems like a downgrade right now. > I lost the ability to connect to the net from my desktop. I still have > wireless connectivity for my laptop so I know it's not my cable modem or > router. I've run the connection wizard to completion but no connection > shows > up in My Network Places. I reset the modem and reset the router, but that > did > not help. I ran installation again. Of course I can't download any > drivers > or updates because I have no internet connection. When I check hardware > through device manager, no modem is displayed. I've also lost sound and > my > graphics card (nVidea). > Les |
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