CityOfAngels

You might know that I bought a new video card to play World of Warcraft with you guys, and that I was expecting to get it today. Well I did. Super-excited about finally being able to play that and other games that I couldn't play before, I realize that the cables from the power supply are constructed so if you have a video card plugged in, you can't have your hard drive plugged in; and vice versa. I wondered what people meant about eMachines having proprietary parts but now I finally understand.

So after setting it all up without the power supply connected to the video card, it boots up and displays an expected notice; something like: "It has been detected that the video card doesn't have an adequate power supply, so its qualities have been restricted in order to prevent instabilities." (Paraphrasing, of course). So, I went to Radioshack to see if there were some extension for the power supply cables of some sort, but all I found were these male or female connectors that still have to be constructed and soldered.

I come back and say 'screw it, I'm gonna see if my homies over at TFP can help me out with this somehow with some info I don't know' and open Firefox, only to see that it isn't detecting the web pages as if it were offline. I reset the modem and router to no avail. I rebooted in vain. Finally, I went to Network Connections only to find there ARE no network connections. I clicked on Network Connection Setup or something of the sort, and it said, "The system can not detect your network adapter."

By this time I was heated. All I did was plug in my video card. I didn't touch the network adapter. The ethernet chord is fine, plugged into the ethernet port, which is lit green as it does when a chord is successfully connected, but it doesn't detect the network adapter. I don't know what to do. Am I going to have to reinstall windows? If so, I think I know how to do that, but I'd prefer not to. Does anyone here have any information whatsoever that could possibly help?

I really want to see you all in-game. Hopefully it will be possible soon.

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