Hi everyone,
I'm wracking my brains over this so any help would be appreciated.
I recently built myself a new PC (my last one was 5 years old).
I installed Win XP -X64 as the OS. I hooked up the PC to the cable modem (a Linksys LINKSYS BEFCMU10) and the LAN cable (from a LAN port on the Striker Extreme Mobo) picked up an IP address immediately, and assigned a default gateway, but there was no connection.
Pinging external addresses fails with timeout. Looking at the network properties it seems to generate packets no problems, but it doesn't receive many. I've disabled Windows Firewall to rule out packets being sent to an invalid port number.
I've replaced the cable modem with another one provided by my cable company, used USB rather than LAN connections, both modems MAC addresses being added to the list of allowable devices on our network. All setting are set to automatically detect DNS and proxies as requested by the cable provider.
I've even moved the PC to a location where the network connection was known to be good (beside my old PC). Hooked it up to the modem it's using, and now my old PC can't access the broadband service either, even with a reinstall of drivers.
Anyone who can help shed a little light on this subject would be greatly appreciated.
I'm wracking my brains over this so any help would be appreciated.
I recently built myself a new PC (my last one was 5 years old).
I installed Win XP -X64 as the OS. I hooked up the PC to the cable modem (a Linksys LINKSYS BEFCMU10) and the LAN cable (from a LAN port on the Striker Extreme Mobo) picked up an IP address immediately, and assigned a default gateway, but there was no connection.
Pinging external addresses fails with timeout. Looking at the network properties it seems to generate packets no problems, but it doesn't receive many. I've disabled Windows Firewall to rule out packets being sent to an invalid port number.
I've replaced the cable modem with another one provided by my cable company, used USB rather than LAN connections, both modems MAC addresses being added to the list of allowable devices on our network. All setting are set to automatically detect DNS and proxies as requested by the cable provider.
I've even moved the PC to a location where the network connection was known to be good (beside my old PC). Hooked it up to the modem it's using, and now my old PC can't access the broadband service either, even with a reinstall of drivers.
Anyone who can help shed a little light on this subject would be greatly appreciated.
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