Since the laptop can connect to the router and access the Net, it should only be the desktop machine that would need to be restarted if anything.


1. Right-click on the networking icon in the tray and click "Status". It should show that you are connected, and that packets are being both sent and received.


2. Disable any and all firewall software entirely. Even Windows' built-in firewall gets wonky sometimes and denies connections that it shouldn't.


3. Open an MS-DOS window and type the following command:

ping ip_address_of_the_router

If that works, you should get 4 positive responses from the router. If it doesn't work, give us the exact error that the ping command gives you.


4. If the above ping works, try to ping a website (Google in this case) by its IP address:

ping 66.102.7.147


5. If that works, try:

ping www.google.com


6. If none of te above work:

Type:

ipconfig /all >C:\ipconfig.txt

Open the resulting ipconfig.txt file in Notepad and post the contents of the file.

Thanks for the reply. Tried all that and some more. Since cannot ping anything at all, the ipconfig gave just the header line:

Windows IP Configuration

That is it. and Nothing else..No amount of release/renew didn't work.

If your network card were truly working properly (and enabled, of course), the ipconfig command should have given you information somewhat similar to the following:

That fact that ipconfig listed no information whatsoever about your network card means that the device is either not configured correctly, or that it is configured correctly but has been disabled.

Look in your Network Connections control panel. Do you seen the connection listed? If so, what information do you see there? Right-click on the connection and then click Status in the resulting pop-up menu. what information do you see there?

Had a problem with motherboard built in LAN driver. I found a disk that came with motherboard. After (re)installing it, everything is working. Thanks for the time.

That would do it. Good job on finding that

have the same problem myself, but unfortunately do not have a system disk. My background story though is i had a vista OS and downgraded to XP for stability issues. How can i get my lan driver back?