strange LAN message

catford

I noticed tonight an icon telling me that a network cable is unplugged--but i'm not on a network and my pc and b/band seem ok.
Where do I need to look to sort this out?I never mess with the network connections--well-not deliberately!-so I dont know where to start checking.
Any advice please.

Toxteth_OGrady

It'll be the connection from your PC to your modem and/or router. If you are on bradband you are de facto on a network.

:cool:

TOG

catford

catford wrote:

I noticed tonight an icon telling me that a network cable is unplugged--but i'm not on a network and my pc and b/band seem ok.
Where do I need to look to sort this out?I never mess with the network connections--well-not deliberately!-so I dont know where to start checking.
Any advice please.

Just done some serious crawling about with a light and a lot of wriggling of cables and unless somethings busted it's all connected up as normal.
if i'd lost the connection,wouldn't that put me offline??

viru.doshi

Has this icon just appeared all of a sudden?

If its been there for ages its probably just there because you have an empty network port on the back of your pc.

catford

viru.doshi wrote:

Has this icon just appeared all of a sudden?

If its been there for ages its probably just there because you have an empty network port on the back of your pc.

It arrived tonight --no invite -it just appeared. its got to be finger trouble on my part but i dont know what or when. :eek:

westie666

does your b/band modem plutg into the network port on your comp. If this was the only network port you have on your comp and you connect to the internert using a Network connection to your modem then this would kick you off the net

If it was USB or wireless then it would not kick you off

albertross_2

Do you have a router or a modem, are you using wireless?

catford

westie666 wrote:

does your b/band modem plutg into the network port on your comp. If this was the only network port you have on your comp and you connect to the internert using a Network connection to your modem then this would kick you off the net

If it was USB or wireless then it would not kick you off

I've got a wanadoo USB b/band modem and it seems to be connected.

albertross_2

unless you have just put a network card in it, it was probably always there, (possibly hidden with hide inactive icons), so nothing to worry about..

catford

albertross wrote:

unless you have just put a network card in it, it was probably always there, (possibly hidden with hide inactive icons), so nothing to worry about..

I think your right I'll hide it and go to bed!!

westie666

to remove the icon so that the popup stops appearing you need to (if my memory serves me correct)

right click on the icon
go to properties
Near the bottom of the window there should be an option to 'show me when network is connected'

Sorry to be a bit vague, im @ work just now and dont use windows here