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February 24th, 2006 22:00
3com 3c920 NIC: can't reinstall broken driver
Dell Inspiron 2650, 3com 3c920 NIC, Windows XP Home SP2
Booted up my system and out of the blue, the 'found new hardware wizard' popped up, telling me that my 3cm NIC, which has been working without problems for years, was detected as 'new' hardware.
Tried to reinstall the drivers from my Dell Drivers CD. Tried to reinstall it by downloading the latest drivers from the Dell site (R49651). Tried installing the drivers by running setup.exe, tried installing the drivers by right-clicking W9X90XBC.INF and Oemsetup.inf, tried installing both of XPs built-in 3com c3920 (3c905-TC compatible) drivers.
Tried it all again in safe mode.
Sometimes the drivers won't install at all (e.g. Oemsetup.inf), sometimes the drivers install (after a bunch of compatibility and 'failed logo testing' warnings).
Each and every time I reboot XP tells me it detected my NIC again (so at least it's talking to the system instead of being completely dead), and each and every time XP tells me that the device it detected two minutes ago "is not connected to the computer."
The troubleshooters of XP and on the Dell site can't solve the problem.
Is there a way to make my NIC and XP talk to each other again?
Booted up my system and out of the blue, the 'found new hardware wizard' popped up, telling me that my 3cm NIC, which has been working without problems for years, was detected as 'new' hardware.
Tried to reinstall the drivers from my Dell Drivers CD. Tried to reinstall it by downloading the latest drivers from the Dell site (R49651). Tried installing the drivers by running setup.exe, tried installing the drivers by right-clicking W9X90XBC.INF and Oemsetup.inf, tried installing both of XPs built-in 3com c3920 (3c905-TC compatible) drivers.
Tried it all again in safe mode.
Sometimes the drivers won't install at all (e.g. Oemsetup.inf), sometimes the drivers install (after a bunch of compatibility and 'failed logo testing' warnings).
Each and every time I reboot XP tells me it detected my NIC again (so at least it's talking to the system instead of being completely dead), and each and every time XP tells me that the device it detected two minutes ago "is not connected to the computer."
The troubleshooters of XP and on the Dell site can't solve the problem.
Is there a way to make my NIC and XP talk to each other again?
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rogier666
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February 24th, 2006 23:00
Here's a picture of the problem:
Even driverguide.com can't help me out this time (their driver fixed the problem back in 2004, before I installed SP2: http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_network&message.id=20366#M20366 )
Message Edited by rogier666 on 02-24-2006 07:26 PM
rogier666
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February 25th, 2006 11:00
Hardware problem instead of a driver problem.
This machine is old and the warranty expired long ago, and I only use the NIC when I nead to get into the configuration screens of my wireless router, so buying a $10 USB NIC sounds like a better option than getting my NIC repaired or replaced by Dell, who probably are gonna try to sell me a new MoBo because the NIC is integrated.