Internet died after restart

stu42 · 09-01-2009, 06:33 PM

I restarted my PC today and when it started up again the internet stopped working altogether. It works fine on the other computers in the house on the same connection. When I check under device manager, everything under Network Adapters has the yellow exclamation mark next to it. I can't find new drivers, but the way it suddenly stopped working like that makes me think its a hardware issue?

Can anyone help?

Forgot to add, under properties the error message is "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)."

**ArmaTheGreek** · 09-02-2009, 07:13 PM

Definitely NIC driver is missing or got corrupted, maybe you computer downloaded an update that corrupted the NIC or it got corrupted by itself. Sometimes they get a little screwed up.

Best thing to do is to update the driver again if you still have the disc or download the driver (depends on the brand name of your NIC e.g. Realtek, Nvidia etc..) using the other computer which is still connected to the internet. Or just use the generic driver from windows XP.

09-01-2009, 06:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
stu42 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 1 OS: win xp	Internet died after restart I restarted my PC today and when it started up again the internet stopped working altogether. It works fine on the other computers in the house on the same connection. When I check under device manager, everything under Network Adapters has the yellow exclamation mark next to it. I can't find new drivers, but the way it suddenly stopped working like that makes me think its a hardware issue? Can anyone help? Forgot to add, under properties the error message is "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)." Last edited by stu42; 09-01-2009 at 06:35 PM.

09-02-2009, 07:13 PM	#2 (permalink)
ArmaTheGreek Pass The Oreos Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Cainta, PH Posts: 570 OS: Windows XP SP2 My System	Re: Internet died after restart Definitely NIC driver is missing or got corrupted, maybe you computer downloaded an update that corrupted the NIC or it got corrupted by itself. Sometimes they get a little screwed up. Best thing to do is to update the driver again if you still have the disc or download the driver (depends on the brand name of your NIC e.g. Realtek, Nvidia etc..) using the other computer which is still connected to the internet. Or just use the generic driver from windows XP. __________________ Regards, Arma The Greek "Look using your eyes but see with your mind."