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[healtheworld]

Hi friends,
I m in dire straights to find the solution of a problem that i m being asked many times a day. I working at level 2 support for one of market leader in PC industry . We are shipping a lot of system for home segment with NIC cards. Now in lot of systems which are not even conneced to any network are getting the message "network cable unplugged". What all steps we hv to perform to correct the message. In most of cases when we run diags on NIC. It passes. In some cases it gives an ip address 0.0.0.0 or media disconnected. or 169.x.x.x.(APIPA).

/******************Is is a bug in XP..*******************/

I want to find the cause and most imp some kind ..


Lets solve it ... guys ...

[Paul Komski]

As far as I know this is a feature of the os, when either an onboard or a pci nic is NOT connected to a lan.

Remove the NIC, if its not being used, or disable it in the BIOS or Device Manager.

RClick the LAN under networks and choose properties and uncheck show in System Tray, will certainly remove the icon from there; but not sure if it will turn of the messages; no doubt the prompts can be disabled somewhere else though.

And .. of course .. Welcome.

PS If you just want to disable the yellow baloon warnings that popup from the system tray, then get TweakUI for XP and uncheck the relevant box under Taskbar. NB this will turn off the baloon warnings for everything including the LAN warnings.

If TweakUI can do it then there is obviously also a reg key somewhere which could be tweaked.

PPS Changing the "show icon in system tray" setting only half does it because it only hides the icon when the LAN is connected! So you still get the notification when not connected but no longer when you reconnect!

PPPS HE HE Been having a good old playaround with this , but the simple solution is to RClick on MyNetworkPlaces, Choose Properties, RClick on the LAN entry and choose Disable.

Just remember to re-Enable if the NIC is ever going to be used!!!

[healtheworld]

I hv cheked the "disable" properties in LAN connection .But still the message does not go.

Do keep in touch

[deddard]

It has to be disabled in DEVICE MANAGER as Paul Komski says. Simply disabling it in the LAN (network) section won't stop the problem occuring.

[Paul Komski]

deddard funny thing is that it does work, rather unexpectedly, for me when I try it from there; and sticks after a reboot. But it does seems more logical to disable the nic, more formally, if it is not going to be used.

Only other thought is that we are all talking about different messages. I was certainly referring to the yellow baloons that point to the system tray. Grrr, I hate them. :mad: But the side effect of a play around like this is that have found the way to rid myself of them. :)