Re: OT: Computer help!!

Rick N. Backer <ken.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009 12:58:39 -0700 (PDT), RichL <rpleavitt@xxxxxxxxx>
did courageously avow:

On May 15, 3:29 pm, "RichL" <rpleav...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
RichL <rpleav...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
p.s....even though in the grand scheme of things I'm an idiot when
it comes to computers, it occurs to me that there's at least an
outside chance that my problem is with the driver for the network
card (corrupted somehow?????). Anyway I'll search for the most
recent driver and see what I come up with.

SOLVED!!! (at least it appears so).

I located (on my other computer, which I'm loathe to connect to the
internet) the most recent driver for my Ethernet card, downloaded
it, copied it onto CD, brought it over to this one, and installed
it on this computer (the faulty one).

Immediately following installation, I was able to use OE to connect
to usenet. I haven't put it through any more demanding hoops yet,
but I will and let you know how things turned out.

Thanks to all who helped!

FALSE ALARM!

The internet connection on the computer came alive at least
momentarily, I was able to post the preceding message and run IE for
just a moment. I then opened Firefox and it lost the connection
again.

So I reinstalled the driver, rebooted, opened IE (successfully), then
opened OE to connect to newsgroups, at which point it died again.

It seems that whatever problem I have is intermittent (down 98% of
the time but able to connect on rare occasions).
At the same time, the other computer (this one) has no problems
connecting through the same router.

Looks like I'm due for a new computer. I was thinking about it
anyways. I could always try a new network card but the computer's
old and there's no guarantee that the problem is with the card, and
I'd hate to waste the money when the best long-term solution is
already staring me in the face.

Have you tried things like switching the connectors, the physical
connection endpoints and possibly even the nics to rule out a hardware
issue that might be easily remedied?

The only thing I haven't done is try another network card. I'll
definitely do that before I completely bail on this PC.


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