re: disappearing ethernet card Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 11:43 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by jack hall (291 messages posted) gweg_ if I run the computer 5 days in a row, than disconnect for a week or so the network adapter disappears. Scanreg /restore works. I've tried going to the entry where it last was used and functioned properly, but no joy. On Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 10:54 am, gewg_ wrote: >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-| Written in response to: re: disappearing ethernet card (gewg_: Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 10:54 am) Responses to this message: re: disappearing ethernet card (gewg_: Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 12:50 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] disappearing ethernet card (jack hall: Sat, Feb 28, 2009, 5:52 pm) re: disappearing ethernet card (gewg_: Sat, Feb 28, 2009, 6:55 pm) re: disappearing ethernet card (jack hall: Sat, Feb 28, 2009, 7:17 pm) re: disappearing ethernet card (Eric Gold: Mon, Mar 2, 2009, 1:25 pm) OMG. Has "runsan" opened a new account? (gewg_: Mon, Mar 2, 2009, 5:29 pm) re: OMG. Has "runsan" opened a new account? (jack hall: Tue, Mar 3, 2009, 7:44 am) re: disappearing ethernet card (jack hall: Tue, Mar 3, 2009, 7:51 am) re: disappearing ethernet card (gewg_: Tue, Mar 3, 2009, 10:54 am) re: disappearing ethernet card (jack hall: Tue, Mar 3, 2009, 11:43 am) re: disappearing ethernet card (gewg_: Tue, Mar 3, 2009, 12:50 pm) re: disappearing ethernet card (jack hall: Wed, Mar 4, 2009, 10:12 am) re: disappearing ethernet card (jack hall: Fri, Mar 13, 2009, 3:08 pm) re: disappearing ethernet card (gewg_: Fri, Mar 13, 2009, 4:38 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum