Ok here's a wierd one. I spent all day on this yesterday and still have no internet. Here's the system:
A64 3200+ @ 2.5GHz
1GB Crucial PC3200 DDR @ 225MHz
MSI K8N Neo Platinum
eVGA 6800GT
Maxtor ATA133 IDE 200GB 8MB
Belkin Pre-N router
Comcast Cable internet
Here's the story:
Got a new (used) video card Saturday, upgrading from an MSI 9800XT (ATI) to an NVidia 6800GT (AGP). Went through the usual routine of uninstalling the ATI drivers, booting to safe mode, running cab & driver cleaner, rebooting and then installing the NVidia drivers, which in this case were the 81.85 WHQL drivers. All of that went fine, played BF2 for hours Saturday night.
Yesterday I wanted to bench the card so I could compare it to similar systems just to make sure everything was ok, so I ran 3DMark05. I scored ~3400, and Futuremark told me that the 81.85 drivers weren't "Futuremark approved". Also, their results reported that my video clock speed was 12Mhz, which distressed me a bit. So I decided to roll back to the latest "Futuremark approved" drivers, 77.72. I went through the same process, using cab & drivercleaner in safe mode, installed 77.72 from Windows afterwards.
After installing 77.72, I reran 3Dmark05 and scored ~4300 and went to the online results browser to compare, but couldn't connect. From this point on my internet was gone. Not only that, but my Firefox browser was borked as well - all of the bookmarks were gone, but it still knew the hompage.
I've done everything I can think of to solve the problem, nothing has worked, including:
reinstalling chipset drivers
ipconfig release and renew
reassigned internal ip's from another machine
moved ethernet cable to a different port on the router
ran cable directly from modem to pc
disabled firewalls
executed WinsockXPfix
restored XP to two previous dates
booted XP cd and ran windows repair
I have three other devices on my network (two pc's and an X-Box), and all of them can see the internet just fine, so I know the problem is not my router.
The only other thing that I can possibly think is the problem is that my hard drive is dying. SMART has been warning me for about three weeks that I have a "reallocated sector count" and that my hard drive is going to fail, but until yesterday I have had no problems. Even after this problem, windows works fine, including 3d gaming locally. This morning i placed an oder for a 250GB SATA 16mb hard drive.
Any other ideas? If it's the hard drive dying, so be it. But if it's not, I'd hate to have it go to waste. The thing that sucks about it dying is that since it's retail, it only has a one year warranty, and it's about 14 months old. Yet, oem drives have three year warranties. wtf.
A64 3200+ @ 2.5GHz
1GB Crucial PC3200 DDR @ 225MHz
MSI K8N Neo Platinum
eVGA 6800GT
Maxtor ATA133 IDE 200GB 8MB
Belkin Pre-N router
Comcast Cable internet
Here's the story:
Got a new (used) video card Saturday, upgrading from an MSI 9800XT (ATI) to an NVidia 6800GT (AGP). Went through the usual routine of uninstalling the ATI drivers, booting to safe mode, running cab & driver cleaner, rebooting and then installing the NVidia drivers, which in this case were the 81.85 WHQL drivers. All of that went fine, played BF2 for hours Saturday night.
Yesterday I wanted to bench the card so I could compare it to similar systems just to make sure everything was ok, so I ran 3DMark05. I scored ~3400, and Futuremark told me that the 81.85 drivers weren't "Futuremark approved". Also, their results reported that my video clock speed was 12Mhz, which distressed me a bit. So I decided to roll back to the latest "Futuremark approved" drivers, 77.72. I went through the same process, using cab & drivercleaner in safe mode, installed 77.72 from Windows afterwards.
After installing 77.72, I reran 3Dmark05 and scored ~4300 and went to the online results browser to compare, but couldn't connect. From this point on my internet was gone. Not only that, but my Firefox browser was borked as well - all of the bookmarks were gone, but it still knew the hompage.
I've done everything I can think of to solve the problem, nothing has worked, including:
reinstalling chipset drivers
ipconfig release and renew
reassigned internal ip's from another machine
moved ethernet cable to a different port on the router
ran cable directly from modem to pc
disabled firewalls
executed WinsockXPfix
restored XP to two previous dates
booted XP cd and ran windows repair
I have three other devices on my network (two pc's and an X-Box), and all of them can see the internet just fine, so I know the problem is not my router.
The only other thing that I can possibly think is the problem is that my hard drive is dying. SMART has been warning me for about three weeks that I have a "reallocated sector count" and that my hard drive is going to fail, but until yesterday I have had no problems. Even after this problem, windows works fine, including 3d gaming locally. This morning i placed an oder for a 250GB SATA 16mb hard drive.
Any other ideas? If it's the hard drive dying, so be it. But if it's not, I'd hate to have it go to waste. The thing that sucks about it dying is that since it's retail, it only has a one year warranty, and it's about 14 months old. Yet, oem drives have three year warranties. wtf.
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