Ranny Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 A few weeks ago my broad band connection stopped connecting. Brought my old pc back from work and it connected straight away. Formatted my new pc and lo and behold get same problem. Broad band provider reckons its a corrupt file on my windows disc, is this likely?. Would I get the same problem occuring on my operating system after nearly 2 years and on my windows disc, which has never been used before? Advice appreciated. Cheers Ranny ps Prob comes up as not being able to find username or password on the domain and its a Wanadoo connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan268 Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 Could be a number of things. I would have put your networkd card (if its not a usb connection). USB ports can also go faulty though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranny Posted September 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 Could be a number of things. I would have put your networkd card (if its not a usb connection). USB ports can also go faulty though. It is a usb connection but doesn't work in any of the 6 sockets, which all work with other perpehirals. Cheers Ranny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan268 Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 That rules out the USB connections. Ah wait a minute, i will just get you the driver you need, it may work, hold on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan268 Posted September 15, 2005 Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 (edited) http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyonder/get...atestusbdrivers I have just assumed you are on Blueyonder, if you aint let me know what you are on. USB for a modem is very picky at times and also uses up ram. Edited September 15, 2005 by Korizin268 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranny Posted September 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2005 Its a wanadoo usb modem and is working on my old computer at the moment. My old comp is an athlon 1400 (Real), 512mb ram, geforce 3 graphics. My new ish comp is an athlon 3200, 1024mb ddr400 ram and a 256mb geforce 5600 graphics. Both are running windows XP. I can get another copy of windows xp (legally lol), so I suppose it worth re-formatting and trying again but I don't feel very confident about it. At the moment old computer is travelling back and forth from work each day so expecting something to go wrong with it soon. Cheers Ranny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan268 Posted September 16, 2005 Report Share Posted September 16, 2005 Maybe try for the sake of it with another XP disk, if that fixes it i will be surprised. When you format a machine your USB doesn't work without the right drivers. They usually come on the Motherboard disk. Like i say i ain't the biggst fans of modems going through USB but i have setup a couple of wanadoo modems with no problems. Could you provide as much detailed info about the problem as you can? Like: When you plug the modem in by USB, does anything come up in the system tray so say it has been recognised? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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