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Originally posted here by Maverick811
Well, that is most certainly weird but not uncommon with MS products. I have no explanation as to why it might have happened in the first place - unless the NIC itself is physically failing. I do, however, have a suggestion if it happens again in the future. Instead of praying to the Tech Gods, go into the W2K add/remove hardware manager and completely remove it from the system there. After that, run a reg. cleaner and remove any references there. I've had to do this multiple times in the past with some hardware that I've installed and it took several installs to get working right. My experience is that W2K will often use setup information that got created the intial time a device was installed, which may have been wrong, in subsequent installs of the same device. Removing this information will allow you to start over clean. Just a suggestion - but not an answer to your question...
It wasnt in the add/remove hardware, it was as if it had been removed or never installed..Ididnt check the registry for referances to it but it definatly wasnt listed as a device to remove/modify.
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Originally posted here by bballad
It wasnt in the add/remove hardware, it was as if it had been removed or never installed..Ididnt check the registry for referances to it but it definatly wasnt listed as a device to remove/modify.
Did you check the option to show hidden devices?
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Yup I had it show all hidden devices...I even checked hardware profiles to make sure one hadn't been setup....perhaps the machine is just possesed...I'm thinking of keeping a baby sledg at my desk th remind the systtem whos boss :)
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Originally posted here by bballad
I'm thinking of keeping a baby sledg at my desk th remind the systtem whos boss :)
You may just end up having to do that...
That does sound very weird, but you can't put anything past MS... I honestly don't know what to tell you - I'm at a loss...
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FYI, the PCI NIC equivalent in the laptop world is called a PCMCIA NIC.. heck you could even use a USB NIC if you have a USB port. ;)
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Well we have a resalution, it happened a second time...it seems my docking station is dieing, when the laptop is docked there seems to be a intermitant short in the connection from the docking station to the laptop causeing the nic to die and vanish as windows thinks its been removed....the solution..well its a company computer under warrenty from IBM so I get a new system and dockingstation :)
