i need help 
last night i noticed nVidia has a newer release of their firewall interface available for download. the interface i was using previously was with Ethernet driver 4.42 (WHQL). the interface i tried to use last night was with Ethernet driver 4.68 (WHQL).
the newest version of the drivers uses an icon in the system tray with which you can change some basic settings on the fly, instead of going through their web-based interface.
the thing is, the newest drivers totally killed my connection...MSN said "cannot connect because there is no internet service, firefox said "xxx page could not be found" and my gmail notifier i think gave the message "could not connect using DNS" (or something very similar with a similar acronym).
in 'my network connections' the LAN connection says the nvidia port is connected. i disable and re-enable the connection and it still says 'connected'. if i try to repair the connection, XP immediately says it failed to find an IP address.
help! i've tried turning the firewall off using the system tray icon, and nothing changes.
my specs:
Gigabyte GA-K8NS Ultra-939 mobo
AMD athlon 64 3200+
1 gig cheap PC2100 ram
120 gig SATA hd.
nvidia 6600GT
thanks for any suggestions you can give me. i did uninstall the old drivers before using the new ones, and have reverted back to the old drivers and it's working fine.
last night i noticed nVidia has a newer release of their firewall interface available for download. the interface i was using previously was with Ethernet driver 4.42 (WHQL). the interface i tried to use last night was with Ethernet driver 4.68 (WHQL).
the newest version of the drivers uses an icon in the system tray with which you can change some basic settings on the fly, instead of going through their web-based interface.
the thing is, the newest drivers totally killed my connection...MSN said "cannot connect because there is no internet service, firefox said "xxx page could not be found" and my gmail notifier i think gave the message "could not connect using DNS" (or something very similar with a similar acronym).
in 'my network connections' the LAN connection says the nvidia port is connected. i disable and re-enable the connection and it still says 'connected'. if i try to repair the connection, XP immediately says it failed to find an IP address.
help! i've tried turning the firewall off using the system tray icon, and nothing changes.
my specs:
Gigabyte GA-K8NS Ultra-939 mobo
AMD athlon 64 3200+
1 gig cheap PC2100 ram
120 gig SATA hd.
nvidia 6600GT
thanks for any suggestions you can give me. i did uninstall the old drivers before using the new ones, and have reverted back to the old drivers and it's working fine.
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