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Diagnostics:

  • I possibly plugged a wire with RJ-45 connector barely wet to my Toshiba laptop LAN port. Network worked fine, then I turned off WinXP without disconnecting AC and after 4 hours turned on again.
  • WinXP auto-reboots in normal mode (disabling auto-reboot shows a blank display)
  • In safe mode it works and it says there is a problem with network hardware
  • RAM memory is all recognized (2GB). I don't know how to test video card memory
  • I disable all network adapters from Hardware Devices and tried boot again in Normal mode, no changes, still rebooting.
  • Then tried boot in safe mode with network functions, WinXP auto-reboots again!!

Question:

Now, in case the LAN device is integrated to my laptop motherboard, there is a way to disable completely or replace it? Any other suggestion?

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Check the bios if you can do it the option will be there... as far as an additional network card; you can get a USB one: encrypted.google.com/… – Kyle Dec 23 '11 at 19:03
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Check your system BIOS, usually accessed by hitting F2 or Del during initial POST (at power-on); if you can disable it anywhere, that's going to be the place.

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