Network Card

• Manager433

  3 Jan 07, 22:09

  Is it possible for a network card inside your pc to go suddenly 'disappear'? Meaning it doesnt appear under system and everything seems to be working fine except that you can't hook up to the internet?
• ndmmxiaomayi

  3 Jan 07, 22:10

  Nope, unless you've uninstalled the drivers for it.
• Manager433

  3 Jan 07, 22:17

  Then something fishy. Just now @ 730pm, I was downloading **3 and surfing sgf. Suddenly, connection speed down to zero and cant login to internet. I go under system, network adapter no longer there and no error appear too.
  
  Then just after 10pm, the stupid network adapter re-appear and everything works fine now. Could it be some outsider hacking my system for evidence???
• ndmmxiaomayi

  3 Jan 07, 23:28

  No idea... never seen such things before. If somebody was to hack you, why would he be so dumb to disable your Internet? He needs your Internet to do bad stuff...
  
  Worth thinking about. I go do some searching.
• Xcert

  4 Jan 07, 12:52

  Any chance of the NIC becoming loose in the PCI slot?
• chanff8

  4 Jan 07, 18:46

  This sounds strangely familiar to my laptop's DVD drive problem. My guess is the connection is loose. You can try this, when it disappears, go to Device Manager (Right-click My Computer, Properties, Hardware) and "Scan for hardware changes". Chances are it'll reappear.
• Manager433

  4 Jan 07, 21:59

  Originally posted by Xcert:

  Any chance of the NIC becoming loose in the PCI slot?

  Not loose at all leh.