NIC disabled on start up

[badlogin]

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

 

[badlogin]

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.

 

[Ian]

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:

Open the properties for your ethernet card in the Device Manager, select the tab that provides driver details and copy the driver name.

For Example, mine is >> dm9pci5.sys (for a CNet card).

Now run regedit and navigate to the following key >>

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services
Do a "Find" for the driver name for your card.

In the right pane where this is found you will see a "start" type -- this is "manual" by default (at least it is for mine).

Try either setting it to "automatic", or "boot".

Change Value data to the wanted state:
0 = Boot
1 = System
2 = Automatic
3 = Manual
4 = Disabled

"automatic" can also be configured through the "services.msc" profile.
If yours is set to "manual" I would just set it to automatic to test.

 

[badlogin]

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.

 

[badlogin]

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.

 

[Ian]

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

 

[badlogin]

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.