[SOLVED] Help please with NIC card

[mongoose333]

Hello ,I am having a little trouble installing a new NIC card on my mobo K8NHAGRAND NVIDIA 3250 chip which has an onboard NIC...If anyone has been following my other thread ,basically comcast tech came today and said "everything on their end was fine ,my connection drop was probably due to my NIC card (onboard) and I asked how much were they ,and he he replied ,I can give you one ,so he gave me a new Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC ,and a new ethernet cable as well and a new RCA modem replacing my SB5101 per my request...I asked them ,there were 2 ,if I still dropped connection after installing new card ,what direction I should look ,and one said a psychic,so hopefully this works..
I installed new card and it says low or no connectivity ,shows 30 or 40 packets sent and 0 recieved ,has caution sign on icon ,,it did come with a little 3 wire bundle,red ,green ,black...do I need this?do I need to uninstall old onboard and if I do will it find it again?
I am lost ,Kinda NOOB...to this...


Thanks ,mongoose333

[johnwill]

You don't need the extra cable, it's for WOL (Wake On LAN) capability.

Hold the Windows key and press R, then type devmgmt.msc

Under Network adapters, please tell me all the devices listed. Also, are there any devices anywhere in the Device Manager display with yellow ? or ! displayed?



Let's see this too.

Hold the Windows key and press R, then type CMD to open a command prompt:

Type the following command:

IPCONFIG /ALL

Right click in the command window and choose Select All, then hit Enter.
Paste the results in a message here.

If you are on a machine with no network connection, use a floppy, USB disk, or a CD-RW disk to transfer a text file with the information to allow pasting it here.

[mongoose333]

ok will do ,I had to uninstall (take out new NIC) as I believe I had a conflict causing me not to connect per (me trying to fix this prob myself)...So I am online now with old onboard again and will go do as you ask...


Thank you for your help ,I am checking back here frequently in case that changed what you want me to do...


Thank you so much for your time and help...

Mongoose333

[mongoose333]

Well as you know ,my dev mgr doesnt show new card now as it is out.and the only icon with any conflict is my firewire 1394 which I have always had disabled


So I guess ,I am back at square one...need to install new card and it work...

I will be on standby ,maybe you could do a short walkthrough of what I need to do.I know this is a simple task ,I just dont know what to do ,and am leary about searching for other peoples instructions ,but will if that is what you ask...


Thanks again mongoose333










Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Kenny>ipconfig/all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : kenny-333
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : hsd1.tn.comcast.net.

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 5:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : hsd1.tn.comcast.net.
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 04-4B-80-80-80-03
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 71.203.222.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.252.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 71.203.220.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 68.87.74.30
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 68.87.68.162
68.87.74.162
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, January 31, 2008 8:16:03 P
M
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:15:25 P
M

C:\Documents and Settings\Kenny>

[mongoose333]

SIGHHH ,"Is there anybody out there"? Just nod if you can here me...Heh heh


Helloooo...
Is this thing on???


Thanks , Mongoose333

[johnwill]

If the on-board card is working, why are you installing a new one?

[mongoose333]

"sigh"

My connection had been dropping every 30 minutes or so ,I had a comcast tech come out ,there were two...They said it was my onboard NIC ,they gave me a new NIC....


Mongoose333

[johnwill]

Did you try it in a different slot? How about disabling the on-board NIC in the BIOS too. Maybe your system is having resource conflicts.

[mongoose333]

No sir ,I did not try different slot or turning it off in bios ,I will go try those things now...

Thank you...

Mongoose333

[mongoose333]

Ok ,I am not that bios smart ,but here is what I saw ,where I looked ,


Itergrated peripherals
Onboard device


Onchip usb -v1.1+v2.0
usb kb/storage support -enabled
usb mouse support -disabled
Serial ata 2 (internal phy) -enabled
ac97 ---auto
mac lan (nvidia) - auto
onboard lan boot rom -disabled
mac media interface -rgmII
via firewire-enabled

Super IO devices
onboard fdc controller -enabled
onboard serial port 1 -3f8/irq4
onboard serial port 2 -disabled
x uart mode select -normal
x ur2 duplexe mode- half
onboard parr. port - 378/irq7
parr. port mode -spp
x ecp mode use -dma 3


I dont know where to look in bios ,i looked everywhere ,I dont know what I am looking for...

Hope this helps...

Thanks you...Mongoose333

[mongoose333]

got it ,I had a guy on comcast forum tell me to cycle down modem and it worked ,time will tell now if it was a bad nic problem ,like the comcast techs said...

Thanks,mongoose333

P.S. if you would please wait to mark this solved for a few days ,to make sure all is good...Will update in a bit...

Thanks for all the help and gods speed to you all...

[mongoose333]

Go ahead please and marked sovled ,this conn is SOLID...

Thanks for all your help...

Sincerely mongoose333