Can someone who unerstands XP networking please stop in and help.

[The Sauce]

Hi, thanks for reading. I really don't understand what is happening here. I just installed a new motherboard (Abit NF7-S nForce2 chipset) and a new XP install to go with it. The network setup has been kicking my ass. I never seemed to have any problems setting up my network on any other XP system before...just run through the wizard and poof! - works great. Just for background I have a router and set up all IP and DNS to auto-detect in XP, and they are correctly set in the router. Other computers on the network working fine. Here's the problem.

When I go into my network connections it shows two:

Local Area Connection 2 (NIVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Controller) and
1394 Connection 3 (1394 Net Adapter).

It seems to install these two automatically, although as far as I know the chipset only has one network adapter. Then I go into the wizard and choose what I always choose...the option "This Computer Connects Directly to the Internet." I ran through it with the first connection and get an error saying it can't complete the wizard. Then I ran it with the second connection and the wizard finished but i can not access the network. Then I run it through with the "This computer connects to the Internet through another computer" option and it finishes the wizard and viola! It works. Now there is a new connection that says "Network Bridge 2."

THis is what I need explained
1.) Why is it showing 2 network adapters when I only have one?
2.) Why won't it set up the network via the first option (Connects Directly to the Internet) as it has with every other computer I have set up.
3.) Does the fact that #2 happened explain why my connection is so flakey now and I have had to run the wizard several times to get the connection to work again?

Thanks all.

 

[KH85]

1394 Connection 3 (1394 Net Adapter). - That is firewire. It will allways show up in your network connections.

If they are set up for auto detect then they should just get the IP's and Gateway from the router, hence no need to run the Wizard.

Do you mean the Networking Wizard i take it...... i didnt run this and mine is fine 😕 i never ran anything to set it up and i am going through a router as well.....

 

[septiroth]

open up a command prompt(start->run, then type cmd)
type ipconfig
post what IP Address that is shown for the NVIDIA networking controller

 

[The Sauce]

Oh hey thanks for the responses. I figured a few things out.

#1) the 1394 thingie is actually my 1394 interface and not a network adapter (as mentioned, thanks)
#2) the nVidia network adapter was not allowing WAN access (???) but LAN was ok.
#3) what I was doing was connecting to the internet through another computer on my network.

I figured that all out when I installed an old Linksys adapter I had lying around and everything worked fine immediately. Guess I got a bum adapter with this board.

 

[KH85]

you will have to set the gateway, this is usually 192.168.2.1 (well it is on my router)

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Snatchface
Oh hey thanks for the responses. I figured a few things out.

#1) the 1394 thingie is actually my 1394 interface and not a network adapter (as mentioned, thanks)
#2) the nVidia network adapter was not allowing WAN access (???) but LAN was ok.
#3) what I was doing was connecting to the internet through another computer on my network.

I figured that all out when I installed an old Linksys adapter I had lying around and everything worked fine immediately. Guess I got a bum adapter with this board.

I have the same NIC adapter on my ASUS Nvidia NForce2 board and it acted funky at first.

It didn't pick up my external ISP DNS so couldn't get outside either. I manually entered in the info and it worked OK. Then when I went back to auto it still worked. Just seems like an initial setup problem.