Did an audit recently of all on-site It equipment. I found a few machines that had the same hostname. Of those machines that had duplicate names, one machine kept the hostname & the other was booted off the network.
However, the machines that were booted off the network are now not picking up any network connections at all. If I plug in a network cable, I get nothing. Not even a 'cannot connect to network' icon.
Troubleshooting steps I have tried:
Disabling & enabling Ethernet adapter in Device Manager
Replacing network cable with known good cable
Trying different locations across the site to eliminate possibility of bad socket
Tried opening up the BIOS & re-installing network image, but even in BIOS i get 'Cannot Detect Boot Media'
Any help would be much appreciated.