Getting wired

[DVOM]

I've got a machine with a Gigabyte MB and an onboard NIC. I installed a wireless card and ran wireless for about a month. Now I need to go back to hard wiring it to the router.

My problem is that now the onboard NIC rarely works. All I get out of it is a steady blinking light on the router and a message that it's not getting an IP from the router.

Things I've tried:

1) Disabling wireless and enabling wired and rebooting.

2) Uninstalling wireless card, shut down and physically uninstalling wireless card and rebooting.

3) Install a PCI NIC and disable the onboard NIC. Still just a blinking light on the router.

4) Different ethernet cable

5) Different computer to test the router. The router works.

If anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate it.

TIA

[SuperSparks]

Have you tried reinstalling the NIC drivers?

[DVOM]

SS, no I haven't but the fresh install of the other NIC should have accomplished the same thing.

Edit: I uninstalled and reinstalled with an updated driver. No change in the problem.

[Train]

Look in Network connections for Bridged.
Deleteing that cleared things up for me.

[DVOM]

Train, I don't have anything "bridged" in Network Connections.

This could be a motherboard issue rather than a OS or NIC issue. So I've also tried pulling the CMOS battery to reset to defaults and I've flashed the BIOS due to another issue I had with the CPU fan. Neither action changed the situation of the NIC.

[DVOM]

Well, the problem was that both NIC's were dead. The onboard one and my spare.

I bought a new one and it fixed the problem.

[Train]

Thanks for posting back.