hi thanks for reading my thread. i have a compaq presario S5000NX and i have two hdd's on seprete cables. i have win XP one and mandriva 2009.1 on other on the xp every things OK but if i boot up mandriva i lose my ethernet connection it shows in the hardware, but it wont connect. the light on my DSL box wont even light up. every thing was working fine. i was geting some updates. after that i played some games and stuff went back to XP done some stuff went back to mand. and no internet. every thing i know to do i have done and that's not alot. i have tryed a few linox os like ubuntu,trisqul,exc i'm no expert, just basic. PLEASE HELP. thanhs 12volt
