if you can access cmos, make sure the NIC is turned on. If, somehow, it got
switched off it would behave like it is dead

Jon
"Don" <don.mies@cox.net> wrote in message
news:1133883963.584092.122530@g49g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> Jon,
>
> The NIC on this machine is on the motherboard. I tried to install
> another PCI NIC card that I had laying around but it was an old style
> PCI card and would not fit in the new machine. I'll try to borrow a
> NIC from work today.
>
>
> Don
>