Local Area Connection not found yet NIC installed

My system seems unable to find my NIC and thus the local area
connection icon is not displayed. The NIC is part of my mother board.
I called the manufacturer who had me run a diagnostic that confirmed
the NIC isn't being seen. A tech is scheduled to come and replace the
mother board since the system is still under warranty.

I temporarily installed a new Linksys NIC as a stop gap until the
technician comes 7 days from now. The NIC installed yet the local area
connection icon is still missing. The Linksys card doesn't show under
Device manager either. I ran a PC Doctor diagnostic and it found and
passed the Linksys NIC.

I am thinking this is an XP problem instead of hardware. However, I
have no idea how to trouble shoot it. The network connection was
working as of last night be zippo today. Over the past 3 weeks, I had
noticed intermittent problems getting a connection. I thought it was
my cable modem. That has since been ruled out since I swapped out a
new one with my ISP just yesterday.

System specs:
Compaq Presario SR1030NX
Win XP w/SP2 installed
AMD Althlon XP Processor (2.16GHz)
512 MB PC2700 RAM

Help?!?!

Mark

This might be worth a try -- open control panel/network connections.
Right-click the local network connection icon then click properties. Look
for a box that you can tick to "show icon when connected." I've noticed
that sometimes when my network connection seems to drop mysteriously,
running the network setup wizard restores it.

"Mark (CA)" <supine2002.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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My system seems unable to find my NIC and thus the local area
connection icon is not displayed. The NIC is part of my mother board.
I called the manufacturer who had me run a diagnostic that confirmed
the NIC isn't being seen. A tech is scheduled to come and replace the
mother board since the system is still under warranty.

I temporarily installed a new Linksys NIC as a stop gap until the
technician comes 7 days from now. The NIC installed yet the local area
connection icon is still missing. The Linksys card doesn't show under
Device manager either. I ran a PC Doctor diagnostic and it found and
passed the Linksys NIC.

I am thinking this is an XP problem instead of hardware. However, I
have no idea how to trouble shoot it. The network connection was
working as of last night be zippo today. Over the past 3 weeks, I had
noticed intermittent problems getting a connection. I thought it was
my cable modem. That has since been ruled out since I swapped out a
new one with my ISP just yesterday.

System specs:
Compaq Presario SR1030NX
Win XP w/SP2 installed
AMD Althlon XP Processor (2.16GHz)
512 MB PC2700 RAM

Help?!?!

Mark