All my adapters are not working???!?!?! HELP!!!

All my adapters in my Dell Inspiron 1440 (Win 7 HP x64) in the Device Manager are seemingly not connected or malfunctioning...It happened right after I restarted my computer and all of them quit out at once... PLEASE HELP!!!

Are they all showing in device manager with an exclamation mark? Try removing them and rebooting to get Windows to reinstall. Failing that, go to the Dell website and manually download drivers - the Dell website is very good for drivers support.

What is happening to make you think the network adapters have failed?

Originally Posted by patcooke

Are they all showing in device manager with an exclamation mark? Try removing them and rebooting to get Windows to reinstall. Failing that, go to the Dell website and manually download drivers - the Dell website is very good for drivers support.

Yes they are showing up with that exclamation mark, but if I try to download the drivers, how am I going to be able to get them onto the computer? It basically isolated itself, since the network adapters are down and the USB controllers are down too...

Umm... it's not only my network adapters, but all of the adapters, port controllers, etc. are showing up with an exclamation mark next to it in the Device Manager... Under properties, the device status lists Code 39

Originally Posted by highwolfx

Yes they are showing up with that exclamation mark, but if I try to download the drivers, how am I going to be able to get them onto the computer? It basically isolated itself, since the network adapters are down and the USB controllers are down too...

Can you burn them to a CD on your other computer (the one you are currently using for communicating in the forum) or perhaps a friends or neighbors?

Originally Posted by highwolfx

Umm... it's not only my network adapters, but all of the adapters, port controllers, etc. are showing up with an exclamation mark next to it in the Device Manager... Under properties, the device status lists Code 39

Unless you have reason to suspect some type of pending catastrophic failure regarding these components and or your motherboard, I would be thinking malware. Perhaps give this a try and see if you have an infection that may be causing this.
Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper Beta | Microsoft Connect
just grab the right one for your architecture and a blank CD double click the program and it will create a bootable CD that you will be able to scan your computer with independent of your Operating System. Just run a full system scan and see if helps.

Thanks, I think that might be the problem, because I just finished a System Restore and the Device Manager still says the adapters are corrupted or missing (code 39).

Weird that the only adapters affected were the network adapters, sound, video, and game controllers, and the USB controllers... Everything else is working fine...

It could still very well be an underlying driver issue, possibly the chipset driver or perhaps even a BIOS issue. I would still follow through with the earlier suggestions of getting on the Dell site, with your service tag number and making sure that you have the latest available drivers for your Chipset, Video, Audio, LAN, Wireless, etc., even reinstalling the same ones if necessary to eliminate any possible corruption issues, and maybe even see if there is anything available in the way of a more recent BIOS update

Hi

Also run Malwarebytes.

It's strange to have multiple failures at the same time in different hardware drivers etc.

Have you tried just asking it to update drivers in Device Manager?
Do you get an error message if you do?

I didn't know about System Sweeper, I'm creating a disk right now.

Mike

I think something might be wrong with my BIOS, because every time I try to boot from the CD, it says, "Press any key to boot from CD/DVD Drive...", but when I press a key, it boots from the hard drive...

NVM...