Internal Networking Card

Okay, I'm on the dividing line of whether or not to completely wipe out my OS and reinstall XP.

I have a problem with my internet jack, to Ethernet cable, to my laptop (e1505). This first occured midway when I playing an online game, when for no reason, it just suddenly stopped working? (I had no big background programs running, other than a few tabs of firefox) So try as I may, restarting, reinstalling the Broadcom's Ethernet drivers, scan disking, scanning for viruses/spyware (avast, spybot, ad-aware) I couldn't get it to work. So I start to think its my hardware. So then I go to my neighbor's internet connection to see.... and low and behold, it works...yay! But after like less than a minute, the connection dies for me. And now my friend is yelling at me telling me how I "ruined' his jack. (luckily he had an alternative) So umm... what exactly happened and how can I fix it?


I'm so lost right now >.<

 

Well if your notebook as knocked out 2 ports I would not plug it into any thing else. Your port is suppling a voltage level to high and frying the ports. The question is what else is working abnormally? You could buy a cardbus nic if needed or usb to nic as an option.

 

Yup. Sounds like the ethernet port in your notebook is a killer!

 

So I figured... >.>
I guess I'm stuck with wireless forever?

Maybe I'll try a third party ethernet driver...
Any suggestions for similarity with Broadcom's 440x 10/10 Integrated Controller?

If not, I might as well wipe the OS and see what happens...
(right now I'm in the process of storing everything useful to my external)

EDIT: And btw, if this helps at all, my card is still sending out packets, but not receiving any. It's not like it is totally dead. It's just eternally "trying to acquire connection" >.>

I just checked another outlet. Same thing. (this time a public outlet). I got connected for a few second, but later lost connection in which it said my cable was unplugged, when it really wasn't. Maybe I'll wreck havoc on a public ibrary on a bad day or something

@blue68f100: like a regular router and the hooking it by cable to my computer? That works? If so...could you give me an example?

 

I don't under stand what you are asking.

I have seen may port die, and most send but do not receive. You may try a different cat5e cable. I have seen connections go bad too.

 

Buy a USB - ethernet converter. Or a Cardbus plugin card. Don't use your ports anymore and buy a new cable.