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Gideon Zhi

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Posted on 09-10-05 09:23 AM Link | Quote
I'm using Windows XP Pro SP2 on a Toshiba A10-S127 laptop. My nic's an Intel Pro/100VE; I've run a virus scan and an adware scan with Norton Antivirus 2005 and Ad-Aware SE Personal with all of the latest updates and turned up a couple of cydoors, a tracking cookie, and a supposed trojan that installed with JRE1.50, but nothing else. The only "configuration" change I've made recently is that I've moved from Comcast's network to my school's network, and while my nic was working fine at home, it's no longer doing so at school.

The nic appears to work fine when I initially power the computer on. The green status light comes on and remains steady, and the orange traffic light flickers as normal. Some time during the windows boot process, while the status meter is still on-screen before the Welcome screen shows up, both lights die I cease to be able to connect to -anything- with the nic. Windows reports the driver and the card as functioning properly, so I have no idea what's going on.

I've been using a pcmcia backup nic, but it's a piece of junk overall. I've tried reinstalling Toshiba's drivers, but that didn't help either. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Posted on 09-10-05 10:33 AM Link | Quote
Does the school sell NICs? They may have been bastards and only allowed the MAC IDs of the ones they sell on the network.
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Posted on 09-10-05 10:20 PM Link | Quote
Awesome, I got it fixed. Apparently, the network doesn't like my having set my network adaptor's link speed to full duplex/100 :p I did a whole lot of tweaking of XP in the meantime to get it running a lot faster though!
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