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Trouble getting a WinXP machine to connect to Linksys 4-port router. HELP!!!

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Epsil0n00

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Hey guys, I'm having a strange problem getting my network connection to work. I'm basically just looking for some additional troubleshooting advice.

Setup:
WinXP machine. Just ran a clean install. All hardware detected, latest drivers installed, and they appear to be working correctly.
Machine connected by cat-5 cable from Netgear PCI card to 4 port linksys router.

TCP/IP protocol installed (set to auto-detect/dhcp)--This works for every other computer in the house. Cable is plugged into ethernet card. Cannot even ping the router. Does a loopback just fine though. And yes, the machine claims to be connected--it just so happens that no data is transferred...

Took out the card, replaced it. Haven't yet tried it in a new computer. Even tried installing an older ISA card--but for some reason my machine had trouble detecting it. (Plugged it right back into the computer it came from and turned the machine on--the card continued to work perfectly.)

I've tried get my connection to work under multiple OSs when I was dual-booting. No more success w/ 98 than XP. Tried replacing the card multiple times to no avail. I'm starting to wonder if it is hardware problem (motherboard?). Either that or there's a weird quirk such that the router doesn't want to recognize my machine.

Any ideas? Any at all? No advice is too innane.
 
Did you try manually reseting the Linksys to factory defaults via reset switch? Also, am to understand that all your other PC's connect to it fine, except for this one?
 
I have the same router and I'm always throwing new systems onto it (temporarily) as I build them. (So I can access Windows Updates, etc. via my cable connection.) This may be a dumb question but have you run XP's Network Connection Wizatd? I have found that I sometimes need to run it a couple of times before it sees the new system.

If that doesn't get it, try your NIC in another PCI slot. If that's no go, try another PCI NIC.

RE: cross-over vs. straight cable. Use the same type cable as what you're using on the systems that are being seen.
 
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