Help with connection

Question

OS: Windows XP Professional 2002 service pack 2

Comp: xps 720

Stats: Intell(r) core(tm)2 cpu

6700 @ 2.66GHz

2.66 GHz, 2.00 GB of RAM

Physical Address Extension

I got this computer from my cousin(now deceased), I'm not sure whats going on, I've had it for a while, never bothered hooking it up and now i'm stumped, everything seems to work fine but it just won't get on the net, all my ethernet cables are in working order all the routers ports are fine. I disabled all firewalls, it says it's connected to the internet, running at 400.0 mbps, zero packets..Help, please?

volcano11 · Answer

To help troubleshoot this problem, on the computer with the problem, go to Start > Run and type cmd then click OK. In the command prompt window that opens, type ipconfig /all then hit the enter key. Write down the output from this command or select it and save it to a txt file, then copy this output into a reply to this message.

Steve

BerryMJ5405 · Answer

I know that's the right command, but it doesn't seem to be working. After typing ipconfig /all it justs renews the prompt and says Windows IP Configuration

volcano11 · Answer

If you open Device Manager and expand the listing for Network Adaptes, what is listed there?  If you open Network Connections, what is listed there?   Steve

BerryMJ5405 · Answer

In the Networks Connections it has one LAN or High-speed Internet connection, which is the one I was talking about in my first post - It won't let me delete it or anything though it says 1394 Net Adapter

BerryMJ5405 · Answer

Your the man, Steve. Greatly appreciated.

BerryMJ5405 · Answer

Download them from here and then flash drive them over to the other computer? Got'cha, workin' on it

volcano11 · Answer

The 1394 adapter is a firewire port. It is not normally used for network, rather it is used for connecting things like cam corders.

It appears that you do not have any network adapters installed. You need to install the drivers for the ethernet network controller. You can download them from:

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R151327&SystemID=XPS_720&servicetag=&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=6197&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=1&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=5&fileid=201410

Steve

Networking, Internet, & Bluetooth

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