Hello!
I have a barebones P4 1.6 GHz that I put together about 2 years ago. It has on-board LAN and modem, and I added a firewire PCI card about 6 months ago. I also have an AGP video card installed. Earlier this week I was rendering a DVD overnight (LOOOONG process) and I awoke to find that the computer was in what seemed to be a "hibernate" mode. No display, but lights on the tower. Computer did not respond to mouse or keyboard input. Eventually I reset and there was no display on startup however it seemed to be starting up normally. I removed the AGP card and plugged the monitor in to the on-board video.
When I restarted again I had video again and everything appeared to start up normally. However once I got in to XP and started looking around a bit, I found that the on-board LAN, on-board modem, and firewire PCI card were no longer working. All of my network connections were gone and the components were missing from the device manager.
I have tried to reinstall both original and updated drivers for the components, but XP does not even detect them. I also tried a PCI LAN card from another computer that was known working and XP did not detect it. I did a repair install of XP tonight with no positive results. The install went fine and XP is running smoothly, but still no on-board LAN, modem or my firewire card.
Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance..