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Originally posted by Silvy
The large part of your problems probably started when you turned your case on its side and switched the ethernet cards.
Make sure that all components in your case are secured tightly. Especially check the ram and IDE cables, these have a tendency to loosen up in my systems.
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Yeah, checked all that, everything's in place
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Originally posted by Silvy
Next, why Knoppix would not detect your network: Knoppix assumes you have a DHCP setup, and will not assign an IP adress/gateway or such to your ethernet card. If your network requires any of these set manually, you will have to tell knoppix that. On the other hand: I've never gone the trouble to do that so I can't help you there.
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My bad. Forgot to mention that normally Knoppix *should* work just fine. Our network does use DHCP. Knoppix still doesn't detect the network with the working ethernet card though, which it should do. Unless it's a problem related to the sound my hard drive was making, I think it may be the cable itself. It's over 130ft long so there's a lot of area for it to go wrong.
Since I was able to get into Windows I ran a disk scan and in the process of that checking for and fixing bad sectors the sound stopped. Unfortunately it doesn't tell you if it found any bad sectors so I don't know for a fact that there is a relation. I also defragged just for good measure. When I rebooted (with a full power down) the sound still didn't come back and Windows booted into 1600x1200 with normal amount of colors. Network, however, is still not detected.