Curse

Alexandra-Sweet · Jun 26, 2008, 06:20 PM // 18:20

I have a wireless network card in my computer and an onboard network card.

Whenever I disable my onboard network card it magickly poofs away, if I go to the Device Manager it says "Unknown Hardware" and I can no longer activate the card because the icon poofed.

Because I have no working network card, Windows XP can't download the drivers, whenever I go to the website of my Motherboard I can download something related to "lan" but I ended up with having drivers for 20~ different operating systems but almost none have an .exe file (ECS sucks n.n)

So I decided to use my wireless network card, which I haven't used in 2 years or so, however I think it's dead because it's not detected either, even if I reinstall the drivers from the cd, or move it into another PCI slot.

After I put my computer back in 1 piece and booted it the onboard card magickly appeared again (in the past I've always had to reinstall my operating system to get the onboard card working again).

I would like to know how I can get my onboard network card 100% without having to reinstall my operating system (or do anything weird like opening my computer and move around some hardware)

Motherboard http://www.ecsusa.com/ECSWebSite/Pro...uID=47&LanID=9

zamial · Jun 26, 2008, 06:50 PM // 18:50

I would find out what nic that board has, download the driver and save the driver in a folder. I have created a folder called drivers on my desktop. This is a great plan becuase:
You will always have them.If you want to try out newer drivers you always have the older versions to fall back on. If somthing bad happens you do not need to be online to get them. I also put driversweeper in that folder to for neatness.
I will try and dig up the exact driver you need but I am "at work" atm so I may get beaten by another.

Kattar · Jun 26, 2008, 07:37 PM // 19:37

VIA® VT6103L 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet PHY

That's the nic. So says ECS anyway. Finding drivers (after my 5 minute search anyway) is more than a little difficult.

Completely outside the box, instead of disabling the nic, you could just pull the cable out. That would save you from the trouble of having it disappear.

I'll keep looking for the driver though.

fusa · Jun 26, 2008, 07:58 PM // 19:58

Extract the VIA VT823x PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter "LAN" drivers ( http://www.ecsusa.com/ECSWebSite/Pro...uID=47&LanID=9 ) to someplace on your harddrive as zamial recommended. Go to where you extracted it, find the folders VIA823x_40\Win2K_XP_Srv2003\X86 (if you extracted to c:\ then C:\VIA823x_40\Win2K_XP_Srv2003\X86) Run "WinSetup.exe". If that doesn't work, right click on the FETNDIS.inf file, it should give you an option to install, near the top of the menu that appears. Install and check if the network card is back.

If you are just trying to disconnect you can select the connection's properties, place check mark by show icon in system tray. Then double click the connection and select disconnect.