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For no apparent reason my ethernet port seems to have died. One minute it was working OK, I unplugged it from the ethernet cable for half an hour and when I plugged it back in again – nowt – no lights – no connection – icon says cable disconnected. A ping on 127.0.0.1 returns a response but a loop back RJ45 does nothing.
I have a triple boot XP/Vista/Windows7 configuration and it’s the same in all three so no doubt whatsoever that the port has died (no, the RJ45 socket pins are nor bent/broken/crossed)
Anybody else suffered such a sudden and unexplained failure I wonder ?
What to do about it is my quandary. It’s still under guarantee but I’m loath to send it back for repair as I travel an awful lot and I’d really miss it for the weeks it would take to get back. Also, although it was bought in UK, I live in France and only touch UK soil in transit so issues of international posting too.
Ironically my previous full size laptop, which I use as a home machine now, has itself just developed a display problem at motherboard level and at 5 years old it’s out of the question to spend money on repairing it, otherwise I could have put up with lugging that around for a while.
Frankly I think I’ll probably let it be and buy a USB/Ethernet adapter, they are dirt cheap and the truth is I only really need ethernet at work the rest ofthe time it’s WiFi. Disappointing and irritating all the same.
Cest la vie !
Whey hey, it’s fixed !!!!!!!!!!!
Whilst on another forum advising someone with intermittenet connection problems on a new Windows 7 laptop I told them to check that power saving was not turned on on their ethenet adapter. To do this and be sure of the precise steps to get there I ran up my own Windows 7 where I noticed that mine was enabled so unticked it and lo and behold, it’s came back to life. I rebooted back into XP and it’s all working perfectly again.
I was in Windows 7 when it apparently died and rebooting didn’t help but how bizarre that what surely should be a software switch would seems instead to be a hardware one.
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