Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community - View Single Post - XP won't recognize ethernet adapter... onboard AND in PCI...

soopafreek · 12-07-2006, 02:15 PM

hi all,

i'm trying to help a friend of mine with his eMachines PC (yeah, i know. i know!)... anyway, after doing some major work on it previously, i got the damn thing up an running at my place. when i took it over to his house and set it up, the network card got messed up somehow.

he's got an onboard network adapter, so i figure that it's probably busted, so i install a card in his PCI slot. XP won't work with either of them! in the Device Manager, the adapters are listed under "Unknown Devices", and both have the exclamation point on them.

i've tried uninstalling/reinstalling them, rolling back drivers, updating drivers, uninstalling/reinstalling the PCI bus, uninstalling TCP/IP, flushing TCP/IP, disabling the onboard LAN, disabling the 1394 Net Adapter (which also shows up in Device Manager as unknown), and i've pulled a lot of my own hair out in the process.

in the Events log, there's a warning for RASMAN (Code 20027) saying that it couldn't start due to some problem with the Remote Access Connection Manager.... i've tried stopping/starting/restarting the service (along with Telephony) but it doesn't appear to have any effect. i've looked up the error code but got nothing relating to XP... only NT and W2K.

i should mention that about a week before this problem occurred, i had to wipe the drive and reinstall everything due to random BSODs he was getting. the BSODs have gone away, however this new problem is occurring. so this is pretty much a brand new XP installation.

help!!! :-(

12-07-2006, 02:15 PM	#1 (permalink)
soopafreek Psycho Location: ask your mom	XP won't recognize ethernet adapter... onboard AND in PCI... hi all, i'm trying to help a friend of mine with his eMachines PC (yeah, i know. i know!)... anyway, after doing some major work on it previously, i got the damn thing up an running at my place. when i took it over to his house and set it up, the network card got messed up somehow. he's got an onboard network adapter, so i figure that it's probably busted, so i install a card in his PCI slot. XP won't work with either of them! in the Device Manager, the adapters are listed under "Unknown Devices", and both have the exclamation point on them. i've tried uninstalling/reinstalling them, rolling back drivers, updating drivers, uninstalling/reinstalling the PCI bus, uninstalling TCP/IP, flushing TCP/IP, disabling the onboard LAN, disabling the 1394 Net Adapter (which also shows up in Device Manager as unknown), and i've pulled a lot of my own hair out in the process. in the Events log, there's a warning for RASMAN (Code 20027) saying that it couldn't start due to some problem with the Remote Access Connection Manager.... i've tried stopping/starting/restarting the service (along with Telephony) but it doesn't appear to have any effect. i've looked up the error code but got nothing relating to XP... only NT and W2K. i should mention that about a week before this problem occurred, i had to wipe the drive and reinstall everything due to random BSODs he was getting. the BSODs have gone away, however this new problem is occurring. so this is pretty much a brand new XP installation. help!!! :-( __________________ aaarrrrrgggghhhh!!!!