So i'm troubleshooting a laptop for a friend. He's got an HP pavilion DV6000, running Vista 32-bit. AMD Turion 1.8 Ghz processor, ACPI x86 mobo, broadcom WLAN, and Nvidia nForce 10/100 ethernet controller. At his home he's running a dial-up (lol yes dial-up) connection. He complains that he can't update Vista b/c it takes to long on his connection (big suprise). So he brought his laptop to my house to use my DSL. I connected the laptop directly to my router which is a D-Link DI-604. The connection never made. I looked at the device manager, and the ISATAP #3 controller had the yellow ! next to it. I looked around on the internet, and even on the microsoft site. Most places said to disable or uninstall it since it was related to IPv6. After downloading new drivers for both the nvidia, and broadcom adapters, and messing with a few settins, still nothing. When i go into network sharing and view the controllers, the nVidia doesn't even show a cable connected to it. It's not my router or internet connection b/c all the other computers connected to it are fine.
He's got so much junk on this computer right now it's rediculous. Driver Genius pro, spyware sweeper, windows washer, ect.... I told him to remove all the junk, and get good programs, but he refuses. I'm to the point where i want to just tell him the network controller needs to be replaced, but i've heard bad things about the nvidia/broadcom combo especially with vista. Any ideas? If anyone needs more info just let me know.
