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diagnosing a bad nic
Name: Steve12 Date: November 1, 2003 at 09:37:10 Pacific OS: any CPU/Ram: any
Comment:
Whats the best way to manually determine if the nic is bad? A method that i try is to insert a static ip on the nic and try to ping that ip. Any other ideas. Thanks
Name: rac Date: November 1, 2003 at 10:40:21 Pacific
Reply:
Since they are so very inexpensive, I have a couple laying around and if one appears to not be working, I swap it for another and quickly tell if it's the NIC or something else.
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Response Number 2
Name: dale Date: November 1, 2003 at 12:28:21 Pacific
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Swapping is the only `sure' way.
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Response Number 3
Name: henry Date: November 1, 2003 at 15:39:03 Pacific
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The communication between the nic and the computer could be ok but there could be a problem with the line circuits.
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Response Number 4
Name: yourfriend Date: November 8, 2003 at 09:00:29 Pacific
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If the Link light on the modem is not on when you are connected to the network, either the cable is not correct or damaged, or the network card is bad, or not installed.
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Response Number 5
Name: larraby Date: November 20, 2003 at 06:14:06 Pacific
Reply:
You don't really need to configure a static ip to ping your NIC, just ping 127.0.0.1 that is always your internal loopback address no matter what the ip address is configured as.
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