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HP ZV5000 Network Icon Disappeared
LockedOver two years ago I ran into the power connector issue (weak solder point on the mother board). At about the same time, the LAN icon disappeared from the task manager section on the bottom right. Now, of course a short in the system could of fried the nic adapter but I’d like to perform some troubleshooting and am asking for ideas.
Windows XP SP3
Kaspersky AntiVirus (Norton and McAfee can go shove it)Behavior noticed in the meantime:
1) For a period of time the nic would show after a reboot and would remain until the next reboot. Not a guarantee it would show after each reboot. I had a hdd failure and had to have a new one installed and since then it hasn’t shown once.2) Hardware Manager shows no ? and no LAN is displayed with my WiFi adapter under Network Adaptors.
I’m thinking that maybe this is a driver issue and for some reason the older driver isn’t playing well with some windows updates or maybe the hw had taken a hit dur to the known power issue. If it’s the hw then I’m SOL but if it’s a driver issue I was wondering if someone would know of it.
NEW INFO:
1) When I go under Network Connections in Control Panel I do not have a Local Area COnnection.
2) Hardware Manager doesn’t show a LAN under Network Devices. No ? are shown either.
3) I’m sure this isn’t an “icon display” issue.
4) The adaptor itself doesn’t show any lights. The link/status LEDs are not blinking or anything.NEW INFO 06/14/08:
1) Opening cmd prompt and typing ipconfig only displays information on the wireless network adapator. No information is displayed for a lan network adapator.It’s kind of like the LAN hw itself isn’t even recognized by the system as being present.
Thanks!