Blind Melon
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Ok.. well yesterday we had a crazy lightning storm. I came home to find that our living room computer's monitor was all crazy. Its color was not right, so my friend fixed it by just turning off the monitor turning it back on. Then, I noticed our internet was down. I saw the modem still had status (where it's actually connected to the cable company) up, but the PC connection was down. This was with all 3 computers (including the living room one). My brother found out that his computer didn't function. It turned on, but didn't give him video. His motherboard said FF (because he has the epox board and it tells you the error), but I'm not sure if it helped him. He tried clearing BIOS and that didn't help, so today he's going to go piece by piece and see what doesn't work, and what does.
Anyway, back to the internet problem. I was messing around with the other two computers, and first thought it was the cat 5e cable that was broken. So I tried clearing the BIOS's to maybe refresh the onboard lan (which both of them have and use[d]), and that did nothing. So I remembered I had my friend's old computer downstairs, got his netgear card, put that in the living room computer, which made the computer lag like every 3 seconds for about 5 seconds. I couldn't access the internet on that one, so I put it in my computer. My computer started up and it worked (as you can see). Now, I thought maybe because I still had the onboard lan enabled on the living room computer that maybe that's what was causing the lag and not being able for me to get on the internet... well I turned out to be wrong. And another thing I encountered... we use a router for the internet, and I can only plug in the cat 5e cable into the 4th port for the internet, the other ports do not light up (I figured maybe the other ports had gotten fried or something). I even got out our old hub and it was the same thing. Why is this? The old hub was perfect before we had stopped using it.
Know how to fix any of these issues, then please post!
Anyway, back to the internet problem. I was messing around with the other two computers, and first thought it was the cat 5e cable that was broken. So I tried clearing the BIOS's to maybe refresh the onboard lan (which both of them have and use[d]), and that did nothing. So I remembered I had my friend's old computer downstairs, got his netgear card, put that in the living room computer, which made the computer lag like every 3 seconds for about 5 seconds. I couldn't access the internet on that one, so I put it in my computer. My computer started up and it worked (as you can see). Now, I thought maybe because I still had the onboard lan enabled on the living room computer that maybe that's what was causing the lag and not being able for me to get on the internet... well I turned out to be wrong. And another thing I encountered... we use a router for the internet, and I can only plug in the cat 5e cable into the 4th port for the internet, the other ports do not light up (I figured maybe the other ports had gotten fried or something). I even got out our old hub and it was the same thing. Why is this? The old hub was perfect before we had stopped using it.
Know how to fix any of these issues, then please post!
