New build, NIC not working

edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
edited January 2007 in Hardware
New build, MSI P965 Platinum (nice enough mobo, needs more fan connections)
C2D, ATI X800GTO2, Seagate 7200.9 160GB, E6300, 2x1GB OCZ DDR2 800.

Yes it boots and I can play with bios.
I loaded w2k (old version). Then I loaded SP4.
Then went to MSI website for chipset drivers from another computer.
THERE WAS NO DAMN CD WITH THE MOBO.
Installed P965 driver, installed Realtek Gigabite eithernet thing, installed Realtek sound drivers.
But eithernet does not talk. The light blinks. The utility just says 'error'.
I forced a reinstall. Still no talk.

I am sure that this is simple. Will some please slap me.
Ed

Comments

  • RyderRyder Kalamazoo, Mi Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    I don't understand what you mean when you say it won't talk?

    Go to Start > Run > Type CMD > Press Enter > in the Dos box that opens type "ipconfig"

    What does it return?
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited January 2007
    I have had some weird issues with my MSI board and its two onboard NICs (nVidia and Realtek). The nVidia NIC worked great for about a year, then suddenly developed problems. I disabled it and switched over to the Realtek NIC and have been fine ever since.

    If you have two onboard NICs:

    1) Make sure you're plugging the network cable into the right one
    2) Try disabling the one you're not using

    I'd try what RyderOCZ says. If it gives you a local IP address, try doing a Release/Renew and see if it picks up a "real" IP address.

    Is this hooking straight to Cable/DSL, or to a Router or Switch, etc?
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    Just the treat of appealing such technological greats as you gentlemen was enough to scare the machine into working.
    Once again you have overcome all jsut with your reputations.
    tks ed
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    ed, for future use:

    A reboot of 2000 or XP immediately after installing the NIC drivers will
    force a hunt for a non-local-to-machine IP and a recognition of the "new"
    NIC when 2000 or XP comes back up after the machine completes post.
    Not all hardware has this issue, but many NICs do. Not all NIC driver
    installers tell you to reboot to complete installation, either.


    Maybe Vista will politely auto-reboot after a NIC driver install.
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited January 2007
    I may still have an issue, but at least now I can force it to work.
    It didn't connect after my re-boot, but if I unpluged the CAT5 and reconnected it then it was fine.
    Hey, this is a folding box. I'll only reboot a couple of times a year.
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