re: disappearing ethernet card
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 10:54 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
jack hall wrote:
|[...]installed the ethernet card which came with the unit.
|[...]drivers are straight from IBM (Loveno).
|Used it for about 3 days [and everything was normal]
|[...]
|Couple of weeks later set it back up and no joy.
|Checking under devices, no network adapter shown. Just disappeared.
|In network, Client for Microsoft Networks, Accton fast ethernet controller,
|and tpc/ip all show and bindings are intact.
|This problem occurs every time it is left off for a week or more. 4 times now.
|[...]On bootup, a popup tells me it is looking for drivers for an "unknown" device.
It should be obvious that Windoze is looking for the card's device driver.
Data that Windoze seeks is *always* in the Windows Registry.
I haven't a clue how the **time** element snuck into this,
but somehow the Registry is losing entries.
If, in addition to the *one week span* thing causing a problem,
you can SHUT DOWN Windoze right now
and you have the problem again when you IMMEDIATELY start the thing up again,
that would be a significant symptom.
(...and would make the temporal element a red herring.)
The only thing that makes the slightest sense to me
would be that (just before the 3-week hiatus)
you told Windoze not to _ever_ make any **new** backups of the Registry
then somehow nuked the entry for that device.
Now, each time you power down, that data is lost.
http://www.google.com/search?q=scanreg.ini+Backup-1+OR+Backup-0
(Man, if you look at the _actual_ URL,
it sure is getting hard to get Google to ignore crap from Red China.) 8-|
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