Network problems

[Nakedboy]

I have a small network at home and on occation, one of the windows 2000 machines refuses to see other computers. When I go to the device manager, it lists the card, but puts a number 2 or B after the card name. Once that happens, it can't connect to the network anymore. I changed the PCI but the problem continued. Anyone have any advise? The previous times I have had to reinstall Windows to fix it.

[tk421]

what kind of NIC is in there? It sounds like it might be failing, and then getting reinstalled (hence the "2" or "b" after its name).

Might try removing the card completely, including dev. mgr. entry and registry entries (I don't know where the reg entries are, but I'm sure someone here can tell us).

Or better yet, replace the card. If the problem still occurs, I'd say you have a bad mainboard.

tk

[cyberhh]

I had the same problem, when I replaced the NIC with a new 3com - it solved the problem.

[Nakedboy]

I put in a new card and everything is working fine. Thanks for the help.