Can someone help, my NIC is causing my computer to lock up?
Actually, all of the answers are off base (and a couple of them are completely laughable). The problem is “network cable unplugged”….this has nothing to do with adware, viruses, etc. It means that your OS can’t “see” your nic card, so it thinks it is unplugged. The most common cause is your NIC card is probably having an IRQ conflict (however, updating your drivers for the NIC card would be a good step also) with another card on the system. You need to go to your control panel, select system, go to hardware devices….highlight the nic card, and choose properties. Then in the properties, you can manually set the IRQ to a different one (make sure it’s not set to the same on as the video card – they are usually 9 or 11). That will more than likely solve your problem. There was one good suggestion by a previous poster though…the first step in troubleshooting would be to install a NIC card that you know works. If that NIC card works in your system, then either your nic card went bad or
