local area network connection disappeared

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R.H.

I have a windows 2000 machine that has two network cards; an internal
one that is used to access the internet and a pci card (DLink) which is
used to access another PC to load software. I was having trouble
communicating between the two PCs and so I opened up the Dell computer
and moved the PCI card to a different slot just to see and then suddenly
both local area network connections in the dial up and network folder
were suddenly gone. I can still access the Internet, but I can no
longer access the properties in order to setup their tcp/ip settings and
so forth. Anybody have any ideas of how to get my connections back?

Roger
 
Hi Roger,

Thank you for posting here.

This behavior can occur because of one or more of the following reasons:

- The Plug and Play service is not running, causing the Local Area
Connection icon to not be displayed.

- The Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service is not running, causing the
Make New Connection icon to not be displayed.

- You used the Dcomcnfg.exe tool to change DCOM default settings,
causing the error message listed earlier in this article to be displayed.

- One of the following network dlls is not properly registered.

- Netcfgx.dll
- Netman.dll
- Netshell.dll

- The Network Connections service is disabled or is not started,
causing the Local Area Connection icon to not be displayed.

I recommend that you refer to the following article to resolve this issue.

254631 Some Network and Dial-Up Connections Icons May Be Missing
<http://support.microsoft.com/?id=254631>

Wish it helps.

Regards,
Bob Qin
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 15:27:12 -0700
From: "R.H." <[email protected]>
Subject: local area network connection disappeared
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.networking

I have a windows 2000 machine that has two network cards; an internal
one that is used to access the internet and a pci card (DLink) which
is
used to access another PC to load software. I was having trouble
communicating between the two PCs and so I opened up the Dell
computer
and moved the PCI card to a different slot just to see and then
suddenly
both local area network connections in the dial up and network folder
were suddenly gone. I can still access the Internet, but I can no
longer access the properties in order to setup their tcp/ip settings
and
so forth. Anybody have any ideas of how to get my connections back?

Roger
 
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