Network connection no longer recognized?

[JohnC1234]

Hi, I have just rebooted this week (I leave my computer on 24hours a day) after installing several MS updates. Unfortunately, after rebooting, my network connection is not recognized any longer. The hardware driver is installed (I have removed and reinstalled it many times) and there is no "!" listed in the device manager. Trying an 'ipconfig' specifies that their is no network adapter recognized. I even tried a new network card and have the same problem. The Event Manager listed errors saying "the TCPIP service failed to start".

I had the same or similar problem after using Ad-Aware 6 not too long ago, and I had to reinstall Windows XP from scratch to fix it then (the Winsockfix file didn't work for me with the ad-aware problem). I have just gotten everything back to where it was and would hate to have to go through this again.

Does anyone have any ideas?

- Winsock corruption?
- TCPIP driver corruption?
Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks.

-JC

 

[spruce009]

You could go into add/remove programs, windows setup and remove all networking items. Reboot, and then add them back again. The problem appears to be with the TCP/IP service not starting, which could be a corrupted file or a dependancy not starting.