"Johnny Asia" wrote in message
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I built this computer last summer, it has worked great until now. A
few days ago I lost internet connection, a clean reinstall of XP pro
didn't slove the problem, so I put in a USB wireless adapter, it works
fine. I bought a PCI express ethernet adapter and installed it
this morning. It worked fine for a few hours, then it suddenly stopped
working. It doesn't show up in device manager anymore, either.


Any ideas what the problem might be?


I had an old cable modem that stopped working after a few minutes.
Comcast would occasionally upload new instructions to it, and that would
kill it until
I unplugged, waited, reinstalled etc. A different cable modem solved
that problem. Maybe it's worth a try reset your cable modem (and rebooting
your PC,
in that order), unless you're sure you can rule that out.

hth,
Bill

Thanks