So, every time I need to upgrade my pc, a whole calamity of errors happen!
This time around, my graphics card failed on the weekend, so had to upgrade that yesterday. Now my network card won't work anymore!!
When I installed the new graphics card, I installed the drivers and it worked briefly fine for about an hour and a half. Then during a game, the screen went black. Rebooted the pc, and then the network adaptor/wifi card was not working! I though, it was very close to the new graphics, so maybe it got hot..
I unplugged everything, moved the network card down a slot on the motherboard, and booted back again. It worked again! But this time only for about 5 mins. Tried getting back onto the game I was playing, then shortly after loading it, the screen went black again, so I rebooted again, and no network card detected again!!
Ive tried safe mode with networking, multiple reboots, and nothing seems to get it seeing a network card again! Does this sound like my network card has now died too?! PC just took over half hour to attempt a start up repair, but then failed on it so back to square one. Ive got the option of reset the pc/reinstall windows, or now buy a new network card for it..
Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions?
Edit 10 mins later: After another reboot, where the startup repair attempted but failed, wifi networking is back online, card is being seen etc..
In all, its been about hour and a half since I got it working last..could it be some form of overheating stopping it?! I'll see how long this one lasts.
This time around, my graphics card failed on the weekend, so had to upgrade that yesterday. Now my network card won't work anymore!!
When I installed the new graphics card, I installed the drivers and it worked briefly fine for about an hour and a half. Then during a game, the screen went black. Rebooted the pc, and then the network adaptor/wifi card was not working! I though, it was very close to the new graphics, so maybe it got hot..
I unplugged everything, moved the network card down a slot on the motherboard, and booted back again. It worked again! But this time only for about 5 mins. Tried getting back onto the game I was playing, then shortly after loading it, the screen went black again, so I rebooted again, and no network card detected again!!
Ive tried safe mode with networking, multiple reboots, and nothing seems to get it seeing a network card again! Does this sound like my network card has now died too?! PC just took over half hour to attempt a start up repair, but then failed on it so back to square one. Ive got the option of reset the pc/reinstall windows, or now buy a new network card for it..
Any thoughts/ideas/suggestions?
Edit 10 mins later: After another reboot, where the startup repair attempted but failed, wifi networking is back online, card is being seen etc..
In all, its been about hour and a half since I got it working last..could it be some form of overheating stopping it?! I'll see how long this one lasts.
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