Ok, this story is long so take your time while reading. Please read it all, thanks.
I opened my network connections in XP to find that I had no local area connection even though I was clearly hard wired into the router. My internet was down and I couldn't get a connection to anything.
I installed my WRT54GL Linksys router around a week ago and ever since then I got random internet connection drops over my wired connection. It happened about once or twice a day until now, as I'm typing this. I'm currently using my laptop wirelessly as my desktop doesn't have a wireless card and is out on internet. Everytime my internet dropped I didn't think anything of it and logged off or restarted my PC and it was back up. The same thing happened today, I lost my internet, but this time I decided to open up my network connections screen to find out my local area connect was gone. I logged off expecting the same thing to work as the past week not knowing it was going to fail.
When I logged back on I still didn't have internet and proceeded to do the most basic things to check for an internet connection. My laptop was connected at this time wirelessly. Anywho, I did a system restore to the day before hoping that would help, it didn't. Next I called my ISP to see if they could help.... They couldn't. I called my Linksys router support number next and they verified everything was working with my laptop and my wireless, even my wired was fine. So we did some more snooping to find that my NIC wasn't picking up signals from any device connected to it.
I have tried to use my original Gigabyte CD with the drivers and stuff on it, but when I do everything lags out and stops responding. All I know is that ever since my local area connection has been down my computer has been acting funky. I have done a full scan with McAfee which found nothing and as I type this I'm doing another scan with a program called Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.
So, I'm stuck, my computer is acting weird (explorer.exe crashed once during this time and I had to start it back up manually) and I have no internet or no way of connecting to other devices via ethernet..
If anyone has any possible ideas please throw me a line on here so I can try it.
Anyway thanks for reading, need help badly.
-King
I opened my network connections in XP to find that I had no local area connection even though I was clearly hard wired into the router. My internet was down and I couldn't get a connection to anything.
I installed my WRT54GL Linksys router around a week ago and ever since then I got random internet connection drops over my wired connection. It happened about once or twice a day until now, as I'm typing this. I'm currently using my laptop wirelessly as my desktop doesn't have a wireless card and is out on internet. Everytime my internet dropped I didn't think anything of it and logged off or restarted my PC and it was back up. The same thing happened today, I lost my internet, but this time I decided to open up my network connections screen to find out my local area connect was gone. I logged off expecting the same thing to work as the past week not knowing it was going to fail.
When I logged back on I still didn't have internet and proceeded to do the most basic things to check for an internet connection. My laptop was connected at this time wirelessly. Anywho, I did a system restore to the day before hoping that would help, it didn't. Next I called my ISP to see if they could help.... They couldn't. I called my Linksys router support number next and they verified everything was working with my laptop and my wireless, even my wired was fine. So we did some more snooping to find that my NIC wasn't picking up signals from any device connected to it.
I have tried to use my original Gigabyte CD with the drivers and stuff on it, but when I do everything lags out and stops responding. All I know is that ever since my local area connection has been down my computer has been acting funky. I have done a full scan with McAfee which found nothing and as I type this I'm doing another scan with a program called Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.
So, I'm stuck, my computer is acting weird (explorer.exe crashed once during this time and I had to start it back up manually) and I have no internet or no way of connecting to other devices via ethernet..
If anyone has any possible ideas please throw me a line on here so I can try it.
Anyway thanks for reading, need help badly.
-King
