Scribbler Posted January 11, 2005 Report Share Posted January 11, 2005 This is so frustrating!One day i tried to connect to another PC to transfer files and nothing happened. Naturally i went straight to Device Manager to check on the NICs status and it wasn't there! No reason to panic i thought...Turned off PC. reseated the card... nothingTransfered card to another PCI slot... nothingReplaced the card with another one... XP didn't even see itHmmm... 'Show Hidden Devices' in Device Manager showed me the Realtek packet scheduler miniport but no NICOn startup BIOS recognises Network Adapter on IRQ 11In System Info>Components>Problem Devices it says 'device is disabled'. How do I enable it if it doesn't appear in Device Manager????!Unfortunately as i only network occasionally i can't nail down what caused it as i don't know exactly when it stopped working. It could be around the time I installed SP2 thoughSledge-Hammer time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvw Posted January 11, 2005 Report Share Posted January 11, 2005 Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NICI use that also....no problems with SP2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korgg Posted January 13, 2005 Report Share Posted January 13, 2005 Try this: Run->services.msc and see if Plug and play service is started ... Also Shell Hardware Detection should be started... And have a look at Network conections (dont know if this counts)And try to plug the card in another slot on the mainboard ...BTW: I think at least half the computer users use Realtek 81XX :D ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 BTW: I think at least half the computer users use Realtek 81XX :D ...My DLINK 530TX even uses the RTL8139 chipset... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scribbler Posted January 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 korgg Posted Jan 13 2005, 21:29 Run->services.msc and see if Plug and play service is started ... Also Shell Hardware Detection should be started... And have a look at Network conections (dont know if this counts)And try to plug the card in another slot on the mainboard ...I tried services.msc and they're all 'started'I tried moving the card to another slot but had no effect. In fact, when I used a different card (Adaptec something-or-other) that wasn't recognised either.How can something be classed as 'disabled' in System Info but not appear in Device Manager, disabled or otherwise? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korgg Posted January 16, 2005 Report Share Posted January 16, 2005 I'm quite out of ideeas ... :( ...Go to Device Manager and from the View menu select "Show hidden devices"..If the network card is listed and disabled, enable it (right click on it-> Enable).. If it isn't disabled...well I'l think about that :) ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scribbler Posted January 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 NIC doesn't appear in Device Manager at all. The only reference to it is in System Info>Problem Devices where it states that it is 'Disabled'It must be a software issue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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