Help w/ NIC and Drivers

Hi... I posted this at another forum, and was wondering if anyone could further help me out with my problem.

help w/ NIC and drivers
I just formatted my hard drive, and I've been trying to install all the drivers and everything, but I'm having problems with my NIC.

Local Area Connection 9 - A network cable is unplugged.

I keep getting this message, and I know that all my cables are fine, and they are all plugged in.

The NIC is a Davicom DM9102AF

I'm running Windows XP
I've tried installing the generic drivers that come with Windows XP, as well as drivers that I've found on the internet... but everytime i get them installed, that message pops up.

Does anyone know what could be causing this problem?

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Is your PC actually hooked to any others or onto a network at the moment?

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Ive got 2 computers going through a router, then to a cable modem. My 2nd computer is working fine...
I thought it might be a problem with the router, so I connected the computer directly to the modem, and had the exact same problem.

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How many of those little Network icons have you got in the Sys Tray?

I get that warning all the time if My Bluetooth is unplugged when I am on the wired one at home or when I am away and using the Bluetooth and Cellphone.


Another thought.

I assume you have had this NIC working on this PC before with XP.
Have you been into Device Manager and had a look to see if there are any problems shown there?
Cheers

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yes under device manager, it says the NIC is working properly. There is only 1 of those icons on the systray. I did have this working before i formatted the hard drive.

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Can you try swapping the cable that connects the one that works to the one that don't work and see if that clears the problem?

In My Network Places how many Network Places do you see(ie) are you showing more than 1 LAN?

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I swapped the cables, and with the cable that is working, i still get the same problem... so there is nothing wrong with the original cable... and in my network places i only see 1 LAN

 

Go into safemode and see if you have any ghost installs and remove them or if they can't be removed disable them. Or open a command-prompt and enter the following commands, pressing enter after each command:


set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1

start devmgmt.msc

The first command allows Device Manager to show phantom devices. The second command launches Device Manager. From the Device Manager's menu, select View, Show hidden devices. Expand the Network Adapter tree, and delete the old adapters.

Close the Device Manager and reboot your system to reinstall your adapter.

If you messed with the inside of the computer maybe the pci card needs reseating.

 

maggie's suggestion is a good one.

Local Area Connection 9 indicates you have quite a few network connections set up in software and you probably don't have quite that many that you are using.