Networking card issues

[Tymon]

Didn't think I would ever have to ask for some help on this, I'm an arrogant bastard when it comes to hardware.

Anyway, as of a few hours ago I was infected with a rootkit that seems to have caused problems with several things. Not a problem, cleaned that off of the pc easily. Unfortunately for me the problems remained.

The most annoying of which is, something was edited with my ethernet networking card, causing my connection to show up as "limited and/or no connectivity"

This is not a network problem as I'm talking to you from a wired pc on the same router. I have ubuntu on another hard drive also, and I can switch over to that and use the internet fine as well, so it has to be a problem with the windows install.


I know I can just reformat and get rid of it completely but I really don't want to have to reinstall windows again and patch up ffxi and everything else for the THIRD time this year.

I'll give you the laydown of my attempts to fix this:

1-> Booted into safemode and cleaned the rootkit off of the pc, then checked the registry for any changes to my cards and other hardware. Found some of those so fixed it and booted back to normal mode.

2-> Problems still persisted, but the virus was gone. At this point i assumed it was a problem with the drivers so I uninstalled the chipset and ethernet card drivers and reinstalled them from scratch. This did nothing as well.

This is my current situation now. I didn't check the registry for issues with the drivers themselves. I don't really know how to identify such a problem in binary code so I left that alone.

If I don't get this fixed it really does put me in a place where I have to reformat, and I really, really don't want to do that.

Help me out :wacko:

 

[alanon]

What OS are you using?

Try assigning static IP info (subnet, gw and DNS too)
Try a card from a different manufacturer. (might be a MAC thing in registry)

 

[Tymon]

oh crap forgot that sorry lol. XP.

There's nothing wrong with the static ip info or anything like that, like I said I'm connected right here.

I don't have another card.

 

[Tagrineth]

This is a little random but try shutting down any other computers on your network, power reset your router, then try to connect to it. The other PC might be preventing the connection - the reloading everything and having to fix the rootkit might have created a kind of lockout.

 

[Seteyu]

I can't give much advice, but I've had the "limited or no connectivity" problem with my wireless card on my PC once. Uninstall the drivers, pop open the case and switch the PCI slot the card is currently in. That gets flagged as a new piece of hardware upon reboot, and might help. Dunno, figured I'd toss that out there. GL

Cheers.

 

[CmdrFly]

Go to command prompt.

netsh
int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt
(brief pause)
exit

Then re-install your TCP/IP stack, through the same applet where you'd go to insert a static IP.

Some folks recommend re-installing Winsock at this time too. If you want to do that, wipe it from the registry before you re-install your TCP/IP stack. When the stack reinstalls it will repair Winsock.

 

[Arctyrael]

>netsh winsock reset

should clear the winsock since Cmdr left that out, though it doesn't remove it. You'll want to reinstall firewalls after you do this.

 

[Tymon]

Cmdr and Arc's advice fixed it. Thanks a bunch, I was backing up to reformat too, lol D:

 

[Arctyrael]

Cmdr and Arc's advice fixed it. Thanks a bunch, I was backing up to reformat too, lol D:

Lol.

Reformat: my antivirus.

 

[Tim Wakefield]

Delete System32, that will fix all your problems!

 

[CmdrFly]

>netsh winsock reset

should clear the winsock since Cmdr left that out, though it doesn't remove it. You'll want to reinstall firewalls after you do this.

What's this pussy-ass crap? Scared to fuck with winsock yourself so you hide behind the shell? Does it hold your hand throughout the process? Wipe the dirt off your cheek? Kiss you goodnight?

Get the fuck in there and punch that bitch in the nose!

 

[Arctyrael]

What's this pussy-ass crap? Scared to fuck with winsock yourself so you hide behind the shell? Does it hold your hand throughout the process? Wipe the dirt off your cheek? Kiss you goodnight?

Get the fuck in there and punch that bitch in the nose!

You're just pissed because you didn't think of it yourself. And as a matter of a fact, yes, it does all those except that last one there.