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Matty_ · 14-05-2010, 16:52

While doing a bit of poking around today i saw a number of people who had a similar issue to your original one which was solved by stoping the Bonjour DNS service which is downloaded with itunes, etc.

Might be worth a try going to services.msc selecting the service and setting it to Disabled. You shouldn`t need it auto starting anyway!

p.s. Also try drag and droping the nvm60x32 file back to the System32/Drivers folder and see if it lets you install.

Dai · 14-05-2010, 17:35

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Originally Posted by Lord Nikon

Depends how close he is to Oldham.

Is that the spiritual home of old boilers?

speedfreak · 14-05-2010, 18:47

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Originally Posted by Matty_

It does sound like a failure

Possible other option is to download Software Information 4 Windows form http://www.gtopala.com/ (the green Download SIW) which gives comprehensive information on your computer.
Run it and look at the Hardware->Motherboard+Network Adapters and we may be able to try a different driver.

Still reading through the other stuff advised but for now Ive attached what info it gave me.. when it says device fails to start if I click check for windows solutions it comes up with a could not load device driver error

Im not that far from you Nikon

To be honest if i cant fix this myself (with some help lol) then Im just going to have to get a new laptop or even better fix my PC, Ive started getting crc errors when unpacking torrents and I read that could mean the HDD on its way out

As I said I hate laptops

edit: right Ive copied the file back into drivers, Ive stopped bonjour, I removed from device manager and reinstalled, Im now back to the 2006 drivers, device shows as working but still no connection

speedfreak · 14-05-2010, 19:58

Oh and heres what it had under motherboard...

Matty_ · 14-05-2010, 20:00

Just really throwing things out there now, but if you go to Network Connections right click on the nvidia controller and select Status/Details does it show a Physical Address (MAC) eg 00-0F-EA-XX-XX

speedfreak · 14-05-2010, 20:05

Do you mean this....

Lord Nikon · 14-05-2010, 20:47

Following a couple of Pm'sI think we can solve all the laptop problems. I'll work out the price and let you know monday.

speedfreak · 15-05-2010, 00:56

wahoo I still need the prices for the stuff we spoke about but with regards to the network adaptor...

matty is a legend,matty is a legend nah nah nah nah hey!

Matty pm'd me with a programme to run to assign my network adaptor a new mac address and its worked! Only thing that bothers me is Ive picked from a dropdown selection of macs and I picked one in the USA, are there any security issues etc with using a mac thats listed to a company round the world? The most I could get down was 17Mb but that may be due to my line. Programme was http://www.technitium.com/tmac/index.html

Matty you should work in I.T

big thanks to everybody for the help

Dai · 15-05-2010, 08:55

Good call Matty.. well done indeed.

speedfreak · 15-05-2010, 09:48

He can join my hall of fame with Seph

This was all off topic lol
I can try and update my router firmware now which is the reason I needed this fixing

Dai · 15-05-2010, 11:37

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Originally Posted by speedfreak

I can try and update my router firmware now which is the reason I needed this fixing

I don't know why but I suddenly have this old Flanders and Swann song in my head..

"Twas on the monday morning that the gas man came to call.."

Matty_ · 15-05-2010, 12:17

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Originally Posted by speedfreak

I can try and update my router firmware now which is the reason I needed this fixing

I`m thinking of changing to DD-WRT myself with the D-Link i have, let us know how straightforward it is (if that`s what your doing) and i`ll be tempted to have a bash

Glad the new MAC address worked, it may have been fine just to reset the cards original one but hey it`s doing it`s job so let it be

Sorted

speedfreak · 15-05-2010, 12:33

Yep thats what im doing and if im successful then rest assured it was straightforward

im trying it tonight so I will let you know how it goes, thanks again

speedfreak · 15-05-2010, 20:22

Erm I had a feeling I might be back

lol

Putting the firmware on was really easy but my minds gone blank, Ive got a working connection but only getting 1Mb down, can someone see where Im going wrong here please, does this image look right?

speedfreak · 15-05-2010, 20:53

d'oh CM needed a reboot

If someone can see if my dns settings/router ip etc look ok Id be grateful and I promise to let this thread die lol

oh and matty I reset the network mac to the original one and it works