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    Is my ethernet dead?

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by zolo, Jan 6, 2009.

  1. zolo

    zolo Notebook Evangelist

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    A family member brought his Toshiba Qosmio F20 notebook since it has tons of problems, overheating, spelled soda couple of times on the poor thing, sticky keys, dead DVD-rom = nightmare.

    It’s running windows xp mce, I fixed almost everything, except the Ethernet issue. You see when I plug an Ethernet cable ( I tried 3 different ones, including the one I’m using for my main PC for a year now ) to my router ( I’ve tried different ports). Once the cable is plugged, I can see the network icon in system tray trying to get an ip and all for around 4 seconds, then it shows a message that an Ethernet cable is unplugged!! I’ve tried removing the driver ( intel pro/100 ve ) and install the correct driver from Toshiba-europe which comes with 3 inf. Files, I tried all of them and I get the same result. I removed the useless configfree program a while back, reinstalling the latest version didn’t help though. Is there a software that tests the Ethernet port or something? Or is it dead?
     
    zolo, Jan 6, 2009
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    I think its your setting in your network connections so that it will not connect
     
    allan_huang, Jan 6, 2009
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  3. zolo

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    I checked the BIOS settings, and it's enabled there. I just installed windows vista ultimate sp1 and it's the same problem, the thing is dead for sure :/
     
    zolo, Jan 7, 2009
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    Hi Zolo, have you tryied to update your drivers for your ethernet, is it even installed ?
     
    Gadgetsman, Jan 7, 2009
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  5. zolo

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    Yeah, driver is installed and all, but won't connect no matter what.. Read the OP.
     
    zolo, Jan 7, 2009
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