Keep losing internet connection on winXP pro please help!!

[touser]

hi guys i installed winXP pro last night and everything was working flawlessly then all of a sudden the internet just stopped worlking on my rig..i am on a cable connection and i know it wasnt the connection because i am typing this on a laptop plugged into a router plugged into the same connection..so i reinstalled windows and it fixed the internet problem...only to come turn on the computer today and have no internet again! can someone please help me i am really stumped and mad!

*edit* well now i went in and disabled tcp/ip then reinabled it and now its working..so i think there is a problem with it being turned off some how even though it is ckecked...ughh

[touser]

*bump* well it is still happening..and every time to fix it i have to go into network connections disbable the network then reinable it to get it to work..has anyone else had this problem?

[rugby]

Did your nic work previously to the XP install?

[touser]

yes it did

[touser]

can anyone tell me how to uninstall tcp/ip i need to uninstall and reinstall it because i think it may be the source of my problem..thanks in advance

[su root]

I had the same thing happen to me with Win2k....

Do not use any sleep/hybernate modes, they only provoke it.

I fixed mine by replacing the NIC and reinstalling Win2k.

Before you go out and buy a new NIC, try downloading and installing proper drivers (windows only uses generic ones, or even previous drivers from Win9x)

http://www.windrivers.com/alpha/network.htm
... is a good place to start searching.

Hope this helps...

[touser]

thank you su root for the advice but after all the thinking and tweaking and after 3 reinstalls of windows and1 format it all turned out that zonealarm pro was the culprit! hehe oh well it is fixed now :)

[su root]

Zonealarm did it? I replaced that after the whole deal when it started to conflict with something... Well... now I know my other netcard is good..