No local area connection after registry clean

[Aubryn]

My pc has been acting up lately and after rebooting windows xp " Strongly suggested" that I go ahead with a registry check. It deleted what seemed to be hundreds of bad registries and upon finally booting up I have no connection.

I went under device manager and I'm getting a code 28 under my ethernet controller and it says that the manufacturer is unknown. I thought it was nvidia so i downloaded drivers to no avail. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[Aubryn]

For some reason I had system restore turned off so I don't have a previous restore point to go back to....

 

[getochkn]

Windows never suggest a registry clean or check, that was some spyware/malware crap you must have downloaded and installed. Possibly grabbing the drivers and reinstalling them might fix it, otherwise it's hand registry editing to figure out what registry are needed. I would uninstall you old network adapter and try letting windows redetect it or install the drivers and go from there.

 

[Aubryn]

It wanted me to check for consistency

 

[Shaun o]

Your going to have to open up the case if you built the system yourself and get the brand name of the motherboard and it`s model number.

Then do a search via google for the drivers of the board.
Stick the drivers on a Usb memory stick or burn them to a record able cd or dvd disk. Under device manager for the ethernet controller click update.
point it to the usb stick or dvd drive and install the driver, after a reset it should work.

 

[Aubryn]

I have the driver installation disk that came with my pc. but it has plenty of folders on it, dunno which one for an ethernet adapter. In network connections I have 1394 net adapter but no local area connections.

 

[Aubryn]

Everything is fine,I had to enable lan through BIOS....Still not sure why this all happened but I am on a 7 yr old rig afterall.

Thanks for the suggestions.