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No Internet
Ok so this happened a few weeks ago. One day I had internet the next day I didn't. I check the connection and I am sending and receiving packets. I try to repair and it goes thru the steps and says it's fine. Try to connect and nothing. I tried resetting the router and a linksys, still nothing, tried reinstalling the driver for the ethernet port, still nothing, tried installing a new network card and nothing. Called called tech support for my internet company and they reset the modem, still nothing. I tried a new ethernet cable, tried pluging the computer directly to the router from my internet provider and still nothing. I went to the command promt and tried to ping and it was not pinging anything. Anyone have any suggestions? I uninstalled the last windows update from August and that didn't work. I have not tried running in safe mode w/networking and that is my next step for tonight. I was running Norton Antivirus and I uninstalled that and still nothing. Anyone have any other suggestions?
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Posted October 21st, 2008 16:00
I'll have to try that at some point but I'm at work so I can't download anything here and I obviously can't do it at home. How big is the file, will it fit on a CD?
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Posted October 21st, 2008 18:00
If you clicked the link, you would see the file size is about 1.4 Mb. It will easily fit on a CD-R or USB flash drive.
Steve
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Posted October 21st, 2008 22:00
if winsock fix did not solve the issue, try to disable the firewall and test it again, if still doesnt work try going to safemode w/networking365
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Posted October 22nd, 2008 12:00
Winsockfix didn't work. Tonight I'll try running in safe mode w/networking and msconfig. I uninstalled Norton so currently there is no firewall that I know of. However on start up I would get a message from Ares that there was a firewall that was preventing it from connecting, after I uninstalled Norton I stopped getting this message. My XP Security Center doesnt work and according to the security center the firewall is off.365
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Posted October 30th, 2008 15:00
So I tried safe mode w/networking and I still don't have internet. When I restart the computer Ares comes up with a message that says it can't establish a connection because of a firewall. Now I uninstalled Norton and my Windows Security Center for some reason does not work. When I go to the firewall portion of the Windows Security Center it is off but all of the options are greyed out and there is a message at the top that says the windows security center is unavailable and to restart the security center. It has said this for a while so I don't know, when I first downloaded SP2 (I think that was the one that had the Security Center in it) I had no problems with it, then one day the Security Center stopped working, could this be the problem?
mikeh66
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Posted October 21st, 2008 15:00
Sorry forgot I have a Dimensions 4600 with XP Professional.