Motherboard swap went OK except for network connection

[Yomama]

I could really use some help here.

Over the weekend I swaped out the motherboard and some components in one of my systems. I changed the motherboard, video card and (onboard) soundcard. With the MoBo I went from an ABit BX6r2 with PIII600@800 to an IWill KK266 with TBird 1.4/266 (actually 1/[email protected]/266). So the PCI bus should be at 33MHz - I am just stating this because that should really not be an issue in what I am about to describe...

EVERYTHING went really fine, of course a couple of drivers had to be re-installed but after a few re-boots everything worked fine, and the system is stable at 1.4GHz/[email protected].

EVERYTHING??? Well not exactly. Somehow I lost the TCP/IP layer of my network connection. I have a DSL connnection into a Netgear 314 Gateway router, connecting to a Netgear NIC. I have link-level conncectivity (actually TBase100), but for some reason I cannot connect to the internet or e-mail. I spent a total of more than 6 hours over the weekend to figure this out, but to no extent really. I swapped NICs (also have an Linksys card), uninstalled and re-installed drivers and even re-installed WINME. I am using IE5 or Netscape, and Outlook, and I just can't get out. Netscape tells me that it "...cannot establish a TCP/IP socket connection..."

I cannot do a fresh install, which would be my preference, but I have no idea how to recify this issue.

Any help is appreciated.

Yo

P.s.: Also posted this in the networking section, but there is only limited traffic there - sorry if this causes an inconvenience to anyone

 

[hooziewhatsit]

I assume you've tried to reinstall tcp/ip under network preferences? right?
that's the only thing I can think of off the top of my head.

If that's not it I'm not sure what it could be....

good luck

 

[Tacoman667]

Have you tried unplugging the modem from the PSU? Then plug it back in, sometimes this helps me out when I get those kinds of problems. It makes the modem reset and maybe this might help your case too.

 

[Yomama]

Tacoman667 (Jun 25, 2001 09:25 p.m.):
Have you tried unplugging the modem from the PSU? Then plug it back in, sometimes this helps me out when I get those kinds of problems. It makes the modem reset and maybe this might help your case too.

Thanks for the replies so far. I have re-installed the tcp/ip for the network card and I even moved the network card to another slot and also replaced the network card with another one. I am still stupefied. I may have to bite the bullet and perform a fresh install - dang I wanted to avoid that.

Yo

 

[wildone]

here is probably what you need to do ,first off if you reinstalled windows you can use the internet wizard and tell it to connect through a lan , if you have already done this then goto start>run>then type winipcfg and hit enter , then click realease all then hit renew all , this should have you back up and connected
wildone

 

[Yomama]

wildone (Jun 26, 2001 03:19 p.m.):
here is probably what you need to do ,first off if you reinstalled windows you can use the internet wizard and tell it to connect through a lan , if you have already done this then goto start>run>then type winipcfg and hit enter , then click realease all then hit renew all , this should have you back up and connected
wildone

winipcfg did not work out either - man this must be screwed up - never been dead this long b4.