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This vid demonstrates how a pro PC guy works--lol

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DsE5RPWDbYQ

Speaking of pinging---

If you ping yourself- 127.0.0.1 & it succeeds does that verify your network card is good?

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Haha that is great!

As for the 127.0.0.1 thing, That IP still exists even if you have NO network card so it can't confirm that is it is working properly. I can confirm that your tcp stack and network kernel stuff is working properly, at least locally.

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HHMMM--ok

The reason I asked is that, all of a sudden the other day, I got the"A network cable is unplugged" message from my little network icon.

I'm on DSL--NOTHING was unplugged.

I replaced the patch cable 3 times-uninstalled & reinstalled the network card in the device manager & even did a repair reinstall of Windows--nothing.

SO, I took the PC apart, took my modem out (no free pci ports)

Then I installed a card from a different PC--my network card is part of the motherboard.

I put it all back together & of course my NIC then worked perfectly

So, now I have to undo everything.

I have NO idea what caused this as putting in the other card had no effect on anything, unless there's a connection going loose on my motherboard,

Isn't there some way to test a NIC from the port or software that does it?

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Heres something I never heard of:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?TabID=...&C=SO&U=Strat15




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hmm that could be useful for pc support. So many people out there with no nic, and windows 98, so cant even use a usb drive to transfer stuff.

Sometimes the network cable unplugged message is a result of no IP, I think. It will show the message if theres no logical connection. Though usually it will say it has limited conectivity.

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Red Squirrel wrote: hmm that could be useful for pc support.  So many people out there with no nic, and windows 98, so cant even use a usb drive to transfer stuff. 

Sometimes the network cable unplugged message is a result of no IP, I think.  It will show the message if theres no logical connection.  Though usually it will say it has limited conectivity.

I'm going to put that on my wish list.

If you think a NIC is bad, you use the adapter in place of replacing the NIC to see if you can connect.

There's others, too, some with lights showing speed 10/100/1000.

If I don't uncheck the box in network properties, my nic ALWAYS shows limited connectivity--probably because it knows it's not connecting to a network, just the internet.

But the "unplugged" message I believe is hardware related, although I'm still Googling it.




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