network card not showing

Hi
I am connected to the internet via an ethernet card in a pci slot. My cable broadband internet stopped working and eventually I traced the cause to my etherenet card. I have a spare card which I installed, and messed around trying different slots for the cards, but no success. The network card shows up in device manager and is working properly, but ipconfig cannot locate it, and if I try to set up a network the program freezes. The card is connected to a router and tried connecting my computer direct to the modem with no success. The other computers connected to the router are working. I am running winxp and have tried sfc. Any ideas please? Is there something in services which may be affecting things?
Steve

 

well I dont particularly understand this, but I put one of my lan cards in another pci slot and reconnected to my router and my internet is working again. Must have been something to do with the other pci slots I guess???. Bloody computers!

 

Hello spankydata

How did you trace it to the NIC? The reason I ask is my cable modem goes down all the time.

Did you remove everything, drivers etc. from the old card? First, I'd take the NIC out, restart pc, remove the NIC from Device Manager, drivers etc., listed for the NIC, shutdown, restart, shutdown, put the card back in and restart to see if windows finds new hardware.

 

yup I did all of that at one time or another. Yet it suddenly just started working when I tried a pci slot I hadnt tried before. Weird.