I haven't tried the NSLOOKUP but I tried known IP addresses. Nothing worked. Anyway, I viped the OS and re-installed XP on it. Obviously, that fixed it. As much as I hated to do that, I had to.
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That is possible. but there is no way that I can figure out what I installed recently unless I go to windows update. this is like a catch 22 situation. I cannot check that update history unless I am...

Well, I have been using IE7 for almost 2 months now and suddenly I ran into this!!!

I tried several different things. I disabled all the processes at the startup using msconfig. no help. disabled windows firewall, disabled anti virus and anti-spyware, disabled wireless zero...

It is so wierd that I have the same problem a year after you were talking about it!! I just posted a thread yesterday regarding the same issue.

One additional thing that I observed was I am able...

This is the most bizarre network issue I ever came across. I have been fighting with this for several days now and could not figure out whats wrong with my PC. Hopefully, someone here can help me...

I am most certainly sure that I plugged in the power wire.
The problem that I am having is I am not able to figure out if I have to plug in the new drive in the IDE1/IDE2 and if I should consider it...

I am having the same problem when I am trying to install W2K3 on W2K server. I am just curious to know what was the wire you missed conecting to the adapter. I might be doing the same too!! This is...