You upgrade your network to 1000 Mbps. You install a new 1000-Mbps network adapter into you Windows Vista system. You check the device manager and see no errors or warning. You configure the TCP/IP settings to be as they were for the previous network adapter. Upon restarting the computer, you cannot access the network. You ping your IP address locally and receive the error message, "Request Timed Out." You then ping 127.0.0.1 and receive the same error message. What do you do?

a. Replace the network card drivers
b. Set the network adapter to run at 100 Mbps only
c. Replace the NIC
d. Replace the network cabling

Answer: c. Replace the NIC