lost all gigabit connections

[pfft84]

couple of days ago, ethernet on pc and ethernet pci card worked fine, now i get device cannot start messages on both, updated drivers and no go, anyone have a fix?

 

[kegobeer]

Please update your system specs. The link is in my signature.

Have you installed or removed any applications? Have you installed any Windows updates?

 

[pfft84]

i got the error's, so i uninstalled and reinstalled drivers for both devices and still get the cannot start device error, specs updated

 

[kegobeer]

Have you installed any recent Windows updates? Where did you get the drivers for your hardware?

 

[pfft84]

haven't done any windows 7 updates, after loosing connections, i installed drivers from dell website for the internal ethernet, and linksys site for the external card, and nothing, i uninstalled and reinstalled using windows driver update, and nothing

 

[kegobeer]

The Dell Latitude D600 only has XP drivers. Did you install XP drivers in compatibility mode? What Linksys model do you own, and did you install Windows 7 drivers for it?

 

[pfft84]

my internal card is a broadcom 570x, i found a windows 7 driver somewhere online for that, and im using the linksys pcm1000, got a driver from there site, it didnt specify if its xp or not

 

[kegobeer]

What is the specific error message? Also, are you running a beta, RC, or RTM/retail version of Windows 7? Did you do an in-place upgrade, or was this a clean install? If it was an upgrade, what was the previous OS? Have you installed or removed any applications recently?

 

[pfft84]

running Ultimate RTM, i did a clean install, had xp before tho, in device manager i get the This device cannot start. (Code 10), on both drivers

 

[kegobeer]

To clarify: you did a clean install and you haven't added or removed any applications between the time things worked and when things stopped working?

Linksys doesn't provide a Windows 7 driver for that card.

 

[pfft84]

yep clean install, windows 7 found drivers for everything it self after install, everything worked fine, till yesterday, internal and external ethernet just stopped working with that error code, i used the driver on the site, it might not be for windows 7 , but i tried it, windows 7 also finds a driver for it, installs it, but i get the code 10 error

 

[kegobeer]

Are you certain there were no updates installed? Usually if something suddenly stops working, there's a reason why.

 

[pfft84]

i checked the update history and found 5,

Definition Update's for Microsoft Security Essentials - KB972696 (Definition 1.69.530.0)

in the past few days

 

[kegobeer]

What BIOS revision do you have? Are you running A16?

Another forum user said he got the ethernet controller working by using the Broadcom Ethernet NIC NetXtreme Desktop Driver, found here:

Broadcom.com - Ethernet NIC NetXtreme Desktop Driver Downloads

Here's the forum thread:

http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/31483-dell-latitude-d600-windows-7-drivers-needed.html

Is that the driver you found? I'm stumped as to why things stopped working. Have you checked your BIOS settings to make sure nothing was disabled?

 

[pfft84]

yea im using the a16 bios, ill download that driver and check the bios settings and post back