network adapter gone!? brain teasingly horrible!

so i built this machine a while back and put 7 on it, i thought it'd be nice. it was working fine once i got it all up and running, a little tweak here and there, some bumps in the road, but nothing too major. now recently i moved into a new place, and my computer is right next to the bed, so i've been putting this baby in hibernation to quiet it down. i don't like shutting it down too often. i'll probably start after this gets fixed.

ANYWAY here's where i reckon the problems started. a while back the internets got messed up, i could ping in cmd, but couldn't use a browser and had the little triangle of death in the tray. i was so damn confused, how was i able to ping, but not browse?! anyway i fooled around with it a bit and somehow fixed that problem(no idea how <_<) and now something worse has happened. i woke it up and i just see this yellow triangle in the tray O_o and instantly call the cable company, who tell me that they can see my modem is working fine. the modem(motorolla surfboard) and router (linksys wrt54-g v5) have been reset multiple times, and other computers running on wifi are working fine in the house, so i'm pretty sure it's my box this time ping has no affect. i noticed under ipconfig i get a "tunnel" adapter. i've noticed this before, and i remember seeing "Local area connection 4" and "... 5" in network connections, and i thought it was really weird, but my internet was working so i didn't really care much at the time. i'm paying the price now :"( with no nets. now there's nothing in network connections, and this "tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 9" under ipconfig is 9! so somehow my comp is making LANs, hiding them and making new ones, or something to that extent. under the Description for this LAN 9 it says "Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface", and i tried to look some stuff up about it, and came up with some stuff about how win 7 uses ipv6, which no one else uses yet, giving win 7 all these problems. i'm not sure if this is the source of my problem though, it'd be nice to turn it off, and have the old reliable connection type that is more supported, and have a regular LAN that doesn't recreate itself.

i uninstalled some hidden adapters in my "network adapters" tab in device manager and then slapped myself because the comp didn't find them once i hit "scan for hardware changes", as if i physically deleted the adapter or something. anyway the little yellow triangle was in the tray, not finding a valid connection, and after i deleted some stuff in this tab, it went to being the red X, because there were no available connections. before all this tinkering i had a "virtualbox networking controller" in network connections that was completely useless, thus the yellow triangle before i deleted it in device manager. i slapped the drivers for my box on a thumb drive from another comp and tried installing them, but i get,

"the realtek network controller was not found. if Deep Sleep Mode is enabled Plug the Cable."

now i can't find any good reading material on this, and the only thing i've read about it suggests that the lan card is still 'hibernating' while the rest of the computer is awake, thus the nothingness under network connections. but this is a recent problem, i didn't have this coming out of hibernation before :/ i've tried shutting off all power, taking out the mobo battery, taking out the ram, still the same crap. both lights on the lan connection on the back of the tower were steady on(they're usually flashing widely when everything's working great) and now i only have the right orange light steady on :/ it comes steady on when the box is started up, whether there's a lan plugged in or not. i'm really freakin confused, i've wasted over 6 hours just trying to figure out exactly wtf is going on. i guess i'd like to know how to get out of "Deep Sleep Mode" so i can install these drivers.

thanks for reading it all :) you might as well give me your input

what do you think comrades?

paperboy said:

...now recently i moved into a new place...

Sounds like the card may have shifted in slot on mobo during move (if it isnt on mobo). Turn off and unplug system, take the card out, reseat it, secure it, and let us know results! For that matter, check all the cards and RAM.

paperboy said:

Darryl Licht said:

paperboy said:

...now recently i moved into a new place...

Sounds like the card may have shifted in slot on mobo during move (if it isnt on mobo). Turn off and unplug system, take the card out, reseat it, secure it, and let us know results! For that matter, check all the cards and RAM.

it's built in on the mobo and it was working fine after moving in for quite a while(2-3 months). i've checked ram and cards, all are solid and readable. everything works, except the LAN under network connections just disappeared any clue about the deep sleep mode thing?

If sleep is causing this then I believe you need to set wake on LAN for this NIC thru the BIOS. Or... turn off sleep! Many have had issues with it!

paperboy said:

Darryl Licht said:

paperboy said:

it's built in on the mobo and it was working fine after moving in for quite a while(2-3 months). i've checked ram and cards, all are solid and readable. everything works, except the LAN under network connections just disappeared any clue about the deep sleep mode thing?

If sleep is causing this then I believe you need to set wake on LAN for this NIC thru the BIOS. Or... turn off sleep! Many have had issues with it!

what would this wake setting be under? those were the only LAN options i saw

It varies from BIOS to BIOS... sometimes its where you were Integrated Peripherals, also check Power Settings or similar.