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lost0822

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Okay i just put this rig together (in sig.) everything went smooth posted fine and windows went on great. Well the first thing i've tried to do is get on the internet so i can download updates and what not. I have a Cable connection thru Comcast that i have hooked up to my old comp, the Gateway which i'm typing on right now. I called Comcast, they know nothing of course....the guy had me go to device manager under my computer. He then told me to hit the plus sign on network adapters, basically there is nothing under there....all it had was "1394 Net Adapter" he did not know what that is and either do i. he said if there's nothing else under there he can not help me. What am i doing wrong? I thought if i just unplugged the ethernet connection from my Gateway and plugged it into this one it would work, is there something i'm not setting up? Do i need to set something up off the motherboard disk? Oh i'm also going to eventually have a router going to both computers for internet access and communication, would the router set it up? thanks for any help you can give me.
 
Go into your BIOS and make sure that you have the integrated NIC card enabled, I had to do it with mine.
 
I'd be willing to bet that you need to install your network interface drivers. They should be on your motherboard driver cd. The manual should have mentioned that. After that, just plug it in and go.
 
jpmkm said:
I'd be willing to bet that you need to install your network interface drivers. They should be on your motherboard driver cd. The manual should have mentioned that. After that, just plug it in and go.
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Not quite, Comcast modems offten retain the MAC address of the last device attached to it and will not allow another MAC address through. To make sure you don't have a problem, unplug the power from the cable modem for a few seconds, plug it back in and wait for the lights to stop playing tag, then plug in the computer. I have an RCA (from Comcast of course) and it doesn't like having different devices plugged into it without a power cycle first.

In answer to an earlier question, the 1394 net device is a software bridge so you can network two computers using Firewire. Creative Labs first came up with the idea with the Audigy sound cards to create a faster "gaming" network between two systems. At the time Ethernet was still capped at 100Mbps while Firewire runs at 400Mbps. Now you can get 1000Mbps ethernet cards for $30 so the Firewire net device is completely pointless.

Disable it to speed up some network activities like Network Neighborhood and File/Print sharing since for SOME UNGODLY REASON MICROSOFT THINKS THAT NETWORK DEVICE SHOULD BE USED FIRST FOR ALL NETWORK INFORMATION REQUESTS!!!

As for not connecting to the internet, do you have anything listed under a category for Other Devices? If so you need to install the drivers. If not, check the BIOS like the other guys stated, it's probably turned off.
 
Another hint of reason from personal experience. If you installed Windows with the ethernet connection plugged in, once you could actually access Windows, the system didn't recognize having the device connected.

I've learned that you should leave all things unplugged on a Windows install that you can. Install the drivers and devices after Windows is setup and you won't encounter a problem.

Dark Assassin
 
Dark Assassin said:
Another hint of reason from personal experience. If you installed Windows with the ethernet connection plugged in, once you could actually access Windows, the system didn't recognize having the device connected.

I've learned that you should leave all things unplugged on a Windows install that you can. Install the drivers and devices after Windows is setup and you won't encounter a problem.

Dark Assassin
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Yeah I had that happen once, annoying as hell to fix.
 
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