NIC disabled on start up

I installed new drivers for both nic's and now every time I restart the laptop I have to go in and enable the Realtek wired NIC card. I disabled the wireless card because I have the laptop directly hooked to my Linksys router. What can I do to fix this? Thanks for any help you might be able to give me.


Acer Aspire 9500,
1.6ghz Celeron M
Windows XP Home SP3 up to date
2GB ram new
Intel 915GM/GMS 910GML Express chipset
NIC wired Realtek RTL8169/8110 Realtek driver 5.719.325.2009
NIC wireless Atheros AR5005G "Disabled because directly wired" Acer driver 4.0.0.14001

Wow this forum is dead! I look at the replies to the questions. If there is a moderator on this forum they should at least say they don't know.

Sorry about the slow reply, I've been away for the past few days and only got back to see this .

Can you try this please:

Driver version is 5.623.615.2005 Rthlnicxp.sys
I know there is a latter version on Acer's page. I did install that driver and it caused so many problems I had to do a System Restore just to make the laptop stable again.

I did the 1-4 options that you suggested. Nothing worked or should I say nothing changed that I could see. It's odd, when the laptop is first starting up the icons are there for the network connection and shows a connection for a few seconds then dispears.

Did you try rolling back to the drivers you used before this - I guess it worked ok then?

I just did a system restore, so it's back to the same drivers it had before and yes the Realtek did work fine before I did a driver update. This all started because the wireless nic would lockup the laptop a few min after boot if I didn't hit the wireless button on the front of the laptop to turn it off. I still have to enable the Realtek every time I do a restart.