I am having a very strange problem setting up a network in Windows. I have a system I built with a Shuttle MV43N motherboard, P4 1.6ghz CPU, Seagate Barracuda IV hard drive, and a geforce2 video card. The motherboard has a built-in network jack. I originally had linux working on it and it detected my router fine without any problems.
Then I went and wiped linux and installed Windows XP and XP would lock up during install on "network detection". The only way around this was to disable the onboard ethernet while installing XP, and then reinitialize once XP install was done. This worked fine and XP detected on the first boot when initialized and installed drivers. However, it showed as being connected to the network just it showed 0 packets sent and 0 received. When I opened IE it did not automatically detect the internet connection. I tried running network setup wizard but that did not fix the problem. I plugged the computer directly into the modem and tried installilng the software that came with my internet service but that freezes at "cannot refresh/renew IP address" and does not complete setup.
I have purchased several different network cards, by Belkin, D-Link, and Microsoft, and neither work. I have tried Windows XP and Windows 2000 with the same problems on both. I just installed Windows ME on the machine but still get the "Cannot refresh/renew IP address" error message. I would like to think that I have tried everything possible that I know of, but cannot come up with a solution to this problem. Does anyone have any ideas? They would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
-DMage
Then I went and wiped linux and installed Windows XP and XP would lock up during install on "network detection". The only way around this was to disable the onboard ethernet while installing XP, and then reinitialize once XP install was done. This worked fine and XP detected on the first boot when initialized and installed drivers. However, it showed as being connected to the network just it showed 0 packets sent and 0 received. When I opened IE it did not automatically detect the internet connection. I tried running network setup wizard but that did not fix the problem. I plugged the computer directly into the modem and tried installilng the software that came with my internet service but that freezes at "cannot refresh/renew IP address" and does not complete setup.
I have purchased several different network cards, by Belkin, D-Link, and Microsoft, and neither work. I have tried Windows XP and Windows 2000 with the same problems on both. I just installed Windows ME on the machine but still get the "Cannot refresh/renew IP address" error message. I would like to think that I have tried everything possible that I know of, but cannot come up with a solution to this problem. Does anyone have any ideas? They would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
-DMage
