Slow/No Connection

[Train]

Yes, NIC= Network Internet Card

ALso known as network adapters.



Click the + mark infront of network adapters, R-click the adapter and remove it.

[yurka]

I have two options: Disable and Uninstall. Before I click Uninstall, should I create a Restore Point? Or will Disable do? No Net connection but I do have WinXP CD.

[Train]

Uninstall and reboot. Windows should pick it up as new equipment [hardware] and reinstall the driver.

[yurka]

Wow! Thanbk you Train, for your Christmas pres
ent. This message is sent from WinXP.
In short, it worked like Swiss clock. I deleted NIC, checked Device Manager - there was no Nertwork Adapter entry and restarted. I expected to see a box with something like "Window needs a new HW..." Nothing like that. So, I checked DevMan - there was an entry '"Network Adapter".
There is no Network icon in the Systray, yet I could not care less. As long as I am connected, life is beautiful.
I am a very curious guy. I know very little about computing. My question is: where Windows found another Network Adapter? And installed it so fast (in this 10 years old and generally slow machginje?
Elated yurka

[Train]

What basically happened, was when it found the new nic, it looked for and found the correct driver in the driver folder which was placed there during the initial install as a back up, I guess you can call it that. So when the damaged driver was removed, the driver was found and a copy was installed. Or words to that effect. XP and newer are much nicer than 98 in that reguard.

[yurka]

Thanks for the explanation and everything else.
It turned out my Belkin MIMO router looses connection frequently - so I disconnected it and connect both PC to the modem, one at a time, of course.

[Train]

That works too.