No local area connection visible in Network Connections

Originally Posted by Stuart C

Unless they need a driver for another part (such as the motherboard's main chipset), then they would still show up if he'd done a scan.

If Device Manager is showing nothing, then it's possible that the onboard networking has been disabled in the BIOS.

Nice call

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Originally Posted by garyd

Hi All,

Just to advise, it's working!

It WAS disabled in the BIOS.

Enabled and now all working.

Thanks so much to all for the assistance. I have learnt much due to this though not to leave pc's alone - lol!

Again, thanks and all the best.

Gary.

Nice call on Stuarts part

Yay! Another result for CF!

[Optix]

Hello all,

I'm brand new to the forums (first post). I was just wondering if anyone could briefly describe how to enable on-board networking in the BIOS. I think that I may be in the same situation; I only have visibility to the 1394 connection.

Thanks in advance,

Optix

[RDDearing]

When you start up your PC, do you get a "press [key] to enter Setup" message? Press that key to get into the bios. In a lot of setups I've seen, there's a PCI or on-board setup menu with a sub-option of enabling/disabling the on-board NIC.

Hope that helps!

[Optix]

Perfect!

Thanks,

Optix

[garyd]

Sorry, I should have been able to answer this!

I didn't have access to MY pc before now so couldn't replicate what I had done and at my age the old memory struggles a bit!

Glad it worked out for Optix.