Network Problem

[mrmitchell]

Okay, I have a network set up in the house. One of the computers won't connect to the internet, so I check the router and its port light (on the router) isn't lighting even. Neither are the activity lights on the back of the network card. So, I'm thinking hopefully someone just stabbed through the wire in a desperate sabatoge, but with a different wire it still doesn't work. I plugged it into a different port on the router but it still doesn't work, and the activity lights on the network card still don't even blink, which brings me to my conclusion that it's something to do with the actual card. (Sorry if I'm being vague here )

It's a Linksys LNE 100TX(v5) network adapter (as it says in the system properties) card plugging into a Microsoft MN-100 Wired Base Station.

Thanks in advance

[Skanky Burns]

Try another network card in the box in question. Also, test the cables with other (working) connections. Eliminate what isn't broken, and what you have left is the problem.

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Try another network card in the box in question. Also, test the cables with other (working) connections. Eliminate what isn't broken, and what you have left is the problem.

[Paul Hanson]

If the problem is with just one computer, then I'd say it's the card. If it were with all of them, I'd say the router was to blame.

[Harry Seldon]

Did it ever work? It may not have been installed properly to begin with. You should try reseating it, too, in case it got jarred loose.

[mrmitchell]

Yes, it had been working fine for the couple of months I had it. I'll try all this though.

[mrmitchell]

Reseat--didn't work.

Went out to buy a new card (I don't have extras laying all over the place) and try it.

Didn't work.

Any ideas?

[mrmitchell]

The computer recognized the new card; it went through with the "Windows has recognised a new device" prompt that it should.

[Fve Crathva]

Is everything plugged in properly?

SP

[Paul Hanson]

Have you tried putting it into a different PCI slot?

[mrmitchell]

Yeap. Everything's in alright. The rest of the computer works just fine; it's just this that happens to be ****ed up.

(If anyone else could help me please do, until then this means that family members will be sharking for my computer as it is the only internet-connected one now)

[mrmitchell]

Have you tried putting it into a different PCI slot?

That was the next and last thing I was thinking of doing. Just wanted to see if any Apolytoners had any super-duper secret tricks up their sleeve or something.

[Paul Hanson]

Not likely.

[BustaMike]

I know people have already said this, but it really sounds like the cable itself is bad.

If you wanna test the card by itself, try plugging the computer directly into the cable modem and not using the router at all. If it works, you know it's either the router or the cable. If it doesn't, you know it's the computer.

[mrmitchell]

I used a different cable. Also, other computers on the network work fine, so it is isolated to this computer.