My dell 8300 keeps losing connection with the internet, the connection is good the ethernet light is red

SOURCE: Dell 4700 Computer Integrated NIC Problem

Check for the pins inside the integrated NIC to check if the pins are bent / disfigured. Does not look like the additional card is making any different, looks more like a moving NIC cable is makin the difference.

Lemme know if this helped!

SOURCE: nic card issues?

Do you have any 2.4MHz cordless phones in the house or is the computer near a microwave? those two items can cause interference. You can go to Dell.com, go to support then download drivers/software, enter in your service tag is best if you know it? find the network card driver and download it. You can find out which NIC card you have by going to my computer, system, then device manager and right click on the NIC, then properties, it will tell you what card you have.

SOURCE: Red X for Network Connection Dell 8100

Either the port in your computer or the port in the router is bad. Your drivers are in and working or you wouldn't get the little computer impage in the task bar with the red X. If the cable is good then you would connect with the router. There is a length limit if this is a custom made cable. If it is over 100 feet it might not read properly. If it is a home made cable and you don't have the wires in properly it can read good but not work. Otherwise one of your sockets is bad. Inside the sockets are individual wires than hang down and come into contact with the contact strips on the cable. If those wires are bent up too much or bent sideways where they don't contact the right strip that can cause it not to work. Also any clothing, garbage, paper, gum or large foreign particles found in the socket are bad. Hope this helps.

SOURCE: PC says no ethernet card (NIC) after reinstalled

First make sure the card (if a stand alone card ) is properly set in place (you'll have to open the computer and manually test it . Do this with the computer off!). If this is not the case or, you have the card built into the motherboard, you should re-install the drivers from your original installation CD. Otherwise you may need a friend or, atrip to a library/colleg etc, to download the proper drivers.

Rofel Lantican

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• Posted on Jul 13, 2011

SOURCE: Dell E520. RG-45 port broken.

Hi,

Welcome to Fixya. Did you install the driver for the intel network adapter? Please download and reinstall the driver form the link below.

Intel Intel EXPI9301CTBLKDriver

Please let me know what happen. Thanks