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thundercracker
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lan problems

I went down to the pc shop today and got 2 network cards fit them both in exactly the same way both have a light on the back that turns on when your lan is active 1 pc is running xp pro and 1 xp home the one with home is fine but my pc with pro wont even recognise the network I will be thankfull for any help you can give as i havent the slightest clue why it wont work

Jul 11th, 2006 11:35 AM

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Did you install the drivers for the NIC cards?

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Jul 11th, 2006 01:48 PM

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thundercracker
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yeah but nothin i went into command prompt and cheked for ping it found the other pc but wont establish a connection

Jul 12th, 2006 08:05 AM

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I don't know much about WLAN's, but is it possible the ports needed to connect are blocked?

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I don't know much about WLAN's, but is it possible the ports needed to connect are blocked?

WTF???

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yeah but nothin i went into command prompt and cheked for ping it found the other pc but wont establish a connection

Can you get an IP in the other PC?

Also are they connected to a router? if so then make sure your router is set to Dynamic IP and check to see if both PCs are present in your router.

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Jul 12th, 2006 03:09 PM

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Can you get an IP in the other PC?

Also are they connected to a router? if so then make sure your router is set to Dynamic IP and check to see if both PCs are present in your router.

they arnt goin through a router at the moment but i can pull my spare 1 out and try that ill give it a shot at home i tried putting them through the router but it diddnt help but diddnt try dynamic ip (because im not sure what it is) so ill give that a shot

Jul 12th, 2006 11:24 PM