LAN

[Guest Paul Koukos]

Had some lightning the other day and after we lost power, I also lost my LAN

icon and can not connect to my server or internet.

 

Is there a way to bring it back?

 

Thanks

[Guest Big_Al]

Re: LAN

 

Paul Koukos wrote:

> Had some lightning the other day and after we lost power, I also lost my LAN

> icon and can not connect to my server or internet.

>

> Is there a way to bring it back?

>

> Thanks

Look in Device Manager and see if you have big yellow ? or ! by any

devices. Do you have a Ethernet Controller? Does it say its working?

 

If you don't have a nic card, then the card is blown by the lightning.

Not a hard thing to do. Surprised your router is working! Or is

it? Or do you have one?

[Guest Lem]

Re: LAN

 

Paul Koukos wrote:

> Had some lightning the other day and after we lost power, I also lost my LAN

> icon and can not connect to my server or internet.

>

> Is there a way to bring it back?

>

> Thanks

 

Any electronic hardware connected, directly or indirectly, to an outside

wire (power, phone, cable) may end up being partially or totally

destroyed by a nearby lightning strike. Sometimes, it's difficult to

determine what's working and what's not except by substituting known

good hardware.

 

--

Lem -- MS-MVP

 

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.

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