Posted on March 21, 2008 - by Jordan H

Call of a Windows N00b…

Here are a few transcripts from my friend’s convo with a stuck windows n00b the other day…

(10:22:18 PM) Friend: go Start -> Control Panel -> System -> click on some tab or another -> Device Manager
(10:23:05 PM) (S) Ben (#): ok im on device manager
(10:23:22 PM) Friend: check your network cards and that there’s no error messages
(10:23:41 PM) (S) Ben (#): no dont think there are any error messages
(10:24:27 PM) Friend: no exclamation marks by the little icons?
(10:25:20 PM) (S) Ben (#): actually, there is on ‘other devices’ like ethernet controller, multimedia audio controller etc
(10:25:33 PM) (S) Ben (#): not by the network adapters though

Now what could be causing the problems on our network? Surely not the ethernet controller…