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Win 7 can't connect to DSL cable
I have a HP Pavilion dv-6 with Windows 7 64bit on it. The internet connection suddenly stopped working. Meaning the previous night it worked fine, on the next morning it's just not working.
Windows doesn't even notice if the cable is plugged in. The ethernet plug in the laptop used to flash orange while using the internet. Now nothing.
Troubleshooting the network adapter wrote that that cable must be broken. But it's the same cable I'm using now plugged into an old computer with XP.
I tried to install Connectify Lite on the night it still worked, but I uninstalled it immediately and the connection was still on.
I tried System Restore to revert the changes (Connectify install and a Windows update) that might have caused this.
I also installed a new driver for my network adapter (Realtek PCIe GBE family controller) from the Realtek website. According to Device Manager the Network adapter works fine.