Ok first of all thank you in advance to anybody that actually reads this and trys to help me out. I like to think I have some pretty good computer experience but i dont think i've had a problem yet that pissed me off as much as this one.
Background info:
Im running Windows vista 64bit
I have two integrated Realtek ethernet ports
And...thats probably all you really need to know about my computer
So this is the whole story. Im living at college and i went home for the weekend. I came back on monday to find my internet not working. So the first thing i did was try a different ethernet cable, and it worked. For about a day. And then it wasn't working again. So I did ipconfig in the command line and it said that there was no media connected. So I figured it was either the cable or the jack in the wall.
I tried 3 different cables that i KNOW work, none of them worked. I had 3 friends try their laptops on the same jack in the wall, it worked fine for them. So its not the cable, not the jack, must be the computer. So I looked under the device manager and it said that both ethernet ports are working properly. About a month or two before, I overclocked my CPU about 600 MHZ, so i thought that maybe the system was instable. So i ran prime95 and it was not stable, so i returned the CPU to the stock speed, i ran it again and it said it was stable. So then i returned my BIOS to the defaults to make sure it was EXACTLY the same as before. Still not working. I tried a new ethernet card, didnt work. I tried reformatting my hardrive and reinstalling windows, still cannot get the ****ing internet to work. WTF!? Everything else works, the ethernet cards show up as working properly and everything, it just says that there is nothing connected to it.
Background info:
Im running Windows vista 64bit
I have two integrated Realtek ethernet ports
And...thats probably all you really need to know about my computer
So this is the whole story. Im living at college and i went home for the weekend. I came back on monday to find my internet not working. So the first thing i did was try a different ethernet cable, and it worked. For about a day. And then it wasn't working again. So I did ipconfig in the command line and it said that there was no media connected. So I figured it was either the cable or the jack in the wall.
I tried 3 different cables that i KNOW work, none of them worked. I had 3 friends try their laptops on the same jack in the wall, it worked fine for them. So its not the cable, not the jack, must be the computer. So I looked under the device manager and it said that both ethernet ports are working properly. About a month or two before, I overclocked my CPU about 600 MHZ, so i thought that maybe the system was instable. So i ran prime95 and it was not stable, so i returned the CPU to the stock speed, i ran it again and it said it was stable. So then i returned my BIOS to the defaults to make sure it was EXACTLY the same as before. Still not working. I tried a new ethernet card, didnt work. I tried reformatting my hardrive and reinstalling windows, still cannot get the ****ing internet to work. WTF!? Everything else works, the ethernet cards show up as working properly and everything, it just says that there is nothing connected to it.
