We need some way of testing your NIC to see if it's actually able to transmit and receive. Do you feel like investing a few bob in a crossover ethernet cable? Here's a cheap one.
We could then use it to connect your old and new PCs and see if we can make them talk to each other.
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Do you know that we're all in line for succession to the throne? Really?
Well, if forty-eight million, two hundred thousand, seven hundred and one people died I'd be Queen.