Jon Tydda
jon at tydda.plus.com
Tue Feb 13 15:53:09 CST 2007
Sounds like it to me. Try disabling the NIC in Device Manager, then rebooting it, then try to copy stuff off it with the USB cable. If it makes a difference, then the NIC is fried. Jon -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: 13 February 2007 21:37 To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] Network question - sort of... > Hey, > > A good while back I asked about a machine I worked on that was really > slow, but I could find nothing on it. The general consensus was a > reformat/install. The client did not want to do that at the time. > Well, he got a new pc and wants me to wipe his old machine. So I > brought the old pc home so I could do it without someone breathing over my shoulder. > Before the reformat, I hooked it up to my network so that I could copy some data off of the drive first. The connection light on my Linksys WRT54G for the pc is constantly blinking as if I was doing a download on it. I ran WireShark on the PC and on my PC so see if I could spot any traffic. I could not. Could this be indicative of a bad NIC? He had a cable modem connected to the PC via a USB connection. Data went VERY slow. I ended up copying the needed data to a USB thumb drive (even at USB 1.1, it was faster). I have reformatted and reinstalled XP Home and SP2. The NIC is getting an IP address, the DNS server info looks correct, but I still can't browse the web on it. I can ping the router and my machine. Device manager does not show any problems with the NIC. I just checked, it is an on-board network adapter. Could the NIC get all that stuff but still be bad? > Thanks, > Bobby _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- This email has been verified as Virus free Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net