re: Modem/Router working fine. XP won't recognise them
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ari
(1280 messages posted)
Your message is totally incomprehensible. Can you be clearer so someone might have
some hope of helping you? See below.
On Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 7:25 pm, George Cowley wrote:
>Here's the setup...
>
>It's an HP a642n with a fresh installation of XP.
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>There's a Belkin Wireless G router and a Webstar modem.
The Webstar is a DSL modem, is that right? And you have it connected to the WAN
port of the Belkin router, is that right?
Have you ever been able to connect to the net using this equipment previously, in
this location?
>
>The modem and router both work fine.
How do you know? Do you have other computers that are working, on the internet,
through this router and this modem right now?
>
>Hardware listed is an NVdia NForce network controller. The driver seems fine. I
even
>reinstalled the driver.
>
>The computer won't recognise them.
Won't recognize what? The network controller? The modem? The router? What do
you mean, "recognize"? When you plug the computer's ethernet port into one of the
LAN ports on the router, or into the modem, does the computer do ANYTHING? Can it
tell that it's connected to something? How do you know? What, exactly, is it
doing that tells you this?
>
>I took the router out and plugged the modem in and it came up and was recognised
>correctly.
What do you mean "recognized correctly"?
>
>I tried to connect to the web and it would not play ball.
What do you mean "would not play ball"? Did you get an error message? What did
it say?
>
>When I try to make a new connection, the NVDIA controller comes up as disconnected.
What's that mean "comes up as disconnected"?
What do you get when you do ipconfig /all? What do you get when you ping a numerical
IP address? What do you get when you ping your router? Provide some actual information,
and maybe someone will be able to help.
>It's very strange.
>
>Any ideas what's going on? Sounds like I'd be better buying an ethernet card and
>abandoning the built-in card.
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