blinking Network cable unplugged and enabled

sjm1027 · #1 October 22nd, 2005, 05:07 AM

I had Dell over today. They replaced the mother board and I am having the same problem. Wireless works fine. Wire to NIC card says unplugged and enabled (blinking) I can't get it to work.
Dell then told me it may be software and asked me to reload XP... I did that too, a full install... took me all night to get this laptop D600 Latitude back to normal. I am still getting this blinking thing under network connections. Local area connection (status) blinkes Network cable unplugged and enabled. I am using a known good cable. I rebooted modem, computer and did all I can do.
Have any ideas? Wireless works fine but daughter has a weak signal at college and needs direct connect.

Thanks,
Steve

bAdWaYz · #2 October 22nd, 2005, 06:43 PM

If you look in device manager for that network adapter is it listed? If it is listed does it have a ? or ! beside it?

sjm1027 · #3 October 22nd, 2005, 06:49 PM

No, BUT 2 minutes ago I played with flow rate and found that 100 mb wasn't correct... I set it to 10 Full and it works now

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Thanks

bAdWaYz · #4 October 22nd, 2005, 06:55 PM

Glad to hear it worked out for you sjm sometimes its the simple things

sjm1027 · #5 October 22nd, 2005, 07:04 PM

Yes to bad a spent a night formatting a disk and reloading software

Live and learn!