Triple trouble and no network

[Metspitzer]

I have an old 1.3G machine I use for P2P. It was working fine until I
tried to send a fax. Sending a fax caused the computer to reboot
instantly. That problem turned out to be the USB 2 PCI card. After I
unplugged the computer from the expansion card and plugged it into the
mobo, the printer/fax worked fine. I took the expansion card out of
the computer.

I think because the computer rebooted during file operations, F: drive
became corrupt. The network was still working at that time, but now
it is broke. WinMx would hang when it was checking the files I was
sharing from drive F: I quit sharing drive F: and quit loading WinMx,
but now I have no network. Each time I boot the computer it checks F:
drive for consistency but reports no bad sectors. I also reported
that it had recovered from a critical error several times.

When I check the device manager there is no network card listed. I
have an extra network card, but when I put it in it is still not shown
in the device manager, and at reboot, I get no "new hardware found."

It will show the shared drives (the only shared drives are on that
computer only) and I can read them when I click them. There is
another command that shows Internet options and that page is blank. I
don't really know what to try next. I can not access the shared
drives from another computer.

Suggestions?

[Metspitzer]

On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:45:30 -0500, Metspitzer <kilo...@charter.net>
wrote:

I have no idea why disk errors on F: drive or rebooting the computer
without shutting it down would cause my network card to malfunction,
but I fixed.

What I had to do was take out my sound card and plug the network card
into that PCI slot. This caused Windoze to "found new hardware" and
reinstall the drivers.