re: Network Cable Unplugged - Possible solution.
Tuesday, March 1, 2005 at 8:04 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Billy Shears
(6 messages posted)
What should I disable? LAN device? I tried disabling that, went into my username,
restarted, went into BIOS, enabled it, and am still getting the problems. Thanks
for the help though. :)
On Tuesday, March 1, 2005 at 6:44 am, alex wrote:
>I ran into the Network Cable Unplugged error on my last install of XP on a machine
>with an onboard LAN. I tried many suggestions on this thread and several others.
>Nothing worked. Then finally I disabled the onboard LAN from the BIOS. Got a new
>driver for the same NIC. installed it. at this time there is no NIC present as
far
>as XP is concerned, but I just went thru the Add Hardware and added the card even
>though XP didn't find it. Restarted and enabled the NIC again. Worked fine this
time.
>I should mention that I plugged in a harddrive from an identical machine, same MB.
>it found the NIC fine and worked fine, which led me to the conclusion that XP is
>the problem and nothing on the routers, cables, or the NIC itself. Hope this helps
>someone. I was ready to dump the MB in the garbage after a few days of trying.
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