NIC Cards won't work

[bluestrobe]

My file server board fried (933mhz P3's X2) but taking nothing with it which is nice. I had a spare Premio 212B P2 board with a 333mhz processor I decided to stick in the server case to keep it running until I can get enough together to start another rig.

Here?s the problem. I can?t get ANY NIC card to work. I started out with the NIC cards out of the original server (2), tried both. They installed fine in windows 2K pro but acted like they weren't connected in windows (the lil ?unplugged" icon in the taskbar). A look at the cards themselves shows no activity lights like they aren't plugged in. The cards worked fine in another system. I tried this with all 5 of my NIC cards of different models from Linksys and 3Com. I tried switching PCI slots (3 avail) with the same results. The slots do work as I moved my IDE/1394/USB2 card and a SB sound card around to check the slots without any problems. So in conclusion there are no activity lights or signs of connectivity but the cards installed in windows just fine with no IRQ conflicts or other resource conflicts. I flashed the BIOS on the board to the newest version and cleared CMOS more than once with no change. Also I tried different CAT5/6 cables with no results. I did reinstall the OS twice and uninstalled all the NICs before trying them again.


Until these lil NIC cards get working, I'm stuck. Any Ideas?

 

[Childs]

Have you tried with all the other cards removed?

And if you USB card works, maybe just use a USB network adapter.

 

[bdmst16]

Can you view the ip information? MAC addresss, IP address?

If you can't hit the DHCP server, manually assign an address and see if you can ping it from another computer. Also try pinging the loop back address (127.0.0.1) to make sure that TCP/IP is properly installed.

 

[bluestrobe]

The thing is I can't get that far. Just think of it as you never plugged a cable into the RJ45 female end in the card. I have tried every card while hooked up to another computer and a switch to rule out problems on the other end.

Now a dumb question, how does on see the MAC addy in Win2k Pro? This is the first time I dealt with it in about a year and a half, mostly Win XP and OS9 here.

Also I have tried it with all the cards out just to see if the activity lights would flicker on and then with a PCI video card. Right now it has some Trident 8mb AGP video card.

 

[bdmst16]

Go to a command prompt. Type "ipconfig /all" Post the information when you get that.