Network Adapter wont Hold Driver 2

[robros]

The machine has xp home installed and just recently the user cannot connect to the internet. I have taken a laptop to the home and put the laptop on the cable modem and can access the internet from the laptop.
I checked the device manager and windows sees the on board nic
but claims the drive is bad.I tryed to reinsall the driver and get the same result when the machine reboots after it sees the updated driver when it comes back its not working again. I disable the on board nic and installed another pci nic was able to install the nic and load the drivers. When the machine rebooted I got the same thing as with the onboard nic. Windows sees the nic but claims the driver is invaild.

I have ran spybot and adaware to see if it was spyware causing the problem and they came back clean. I tryed to run norton anitvirus (which is up to date at least last saturday) and the program does not load the machine goes into this maxed out processor and ram mode where it does nothing and I have to use the task manager to kill the process.

I am thinkng virus but am not sure. I have ruled out the cable companys end. I know its machine based but what else can I try. I am going to load other antivirus products onto a cd to see if that can fix the problem. I would not want to have to reinstall the os but at some point that might have to happen.

ANY IDEAS would be great....

Thankfully

Your Al Meyers Kid..You Look Pretty Stupid To me.

 

[xkjdhdg]

Have you tried restoring the system?

 

[robros]

Mr Fixit
I ran a system restore thinking that would cure what was wrong
and even after chosing a restore point well before the problem came to be its still occuring...

Anything else I can Try

Thanks

Your Al Meyers Kid..You Look Pretty Stupid To me.

 

[xkjdhdg]

I would try remove the drivers and reboot. Letting the system find them!!

 

[robros]

Tryed that a and when the computer reboots the device manager tells me there is a problem with the device.

I disable the onboard nic and then installed a new card and the same thing happened it loaded the drivers and then upon reboot I get the device manager stating that there is a problem with the device.





Your Al Meyers Kid..You Look Pretty Stupid To me.

 

[xkjdhdg]

Have you went out to see if there are new drivers??

 

[robros]

even with the latest from dell (for the onboard) and Net Gear for the PCI the problem does not go away

Your Al Meyers Kid..You Look Pretty Stupid To me.

 

[xkjdhdg]

Maybe you have some bad hardware??? Was it working before and when did it quit working? Was anything loaded?

 

[bcastner]

faq779-4625

 

[robros]

Bill
I will try this thanks for shedding light on what I thought the issue might be

Keep up the good work


Your Al Meyers Kid..You Look Pretty Stupid To me.

 

[robros]

Bcastner

I ran the fix you spoke of but it did not fix the problem.

I tryed it from windows and then from safe mode and then from
the command line and it did not do what I thought it would

I am back at my starting point... I am going to reread what you posted to see if I missed something but this should have worked right?

Thanks



Your Al Meyers Kid..You Look Pretty Stupid To me.

 

[bcastner]

It is possible the board has failed. In my area several days of thunderstorms have shown up more and more cases of board failures, likely due to voltage fluctuations.

 

[xkjdhdg]

Are you running a firewall or spyware blocker or Ad Blocker?
If so turn them off and see if it works. I have clear my firewall once in awhile.

 

[robros]

Mrfixit.

I have all of those turned off.....

Bcatner....the org nic was on the board.. I purchase a pci nic
and that site would not work.

have you found success in the MS fixes for this that are posted in the FAQ

Gentlemen thanks again for the help

Your Al Meyers Kid..You Look Pretty Stupid To me.