I have a peer to peer network at home with two pc's. My cable broadband is connected directly to my Belkin 4 port router. The Pc that is plugged into port one of the router is running Windows XP, and it originally was the only PC that I could use to change the internal router settings from. I can not even ping the router from the XP computer now. Long story short, I cannot access the internet from this PC, only with the other PC on the network that is running windows 98se. Now, the XP system seems to know that it is connected to the router, but there is definetily some communication/configuration issues. For example, when I pull out the cable that connects the router and the XP system, windows tells me that a network cable is unplugged.

When I try to ping the XP system from the 98Se system, I get 'request timed out'. I can ping the router from the 98se system though, and connect to the internet. This fact alone tells me that the router is seemingly ok, but the Xp system isn't telling me anything really. I've reinstalled the protocols and client on the the XP system to no avail. I've also used the troubleshooting wizard to try to repair the connection to the router, that also produced no effect. I've changed the cable, reseated the NIC, and manually configured the TCP/IP settings to their initial values, and still no luck connecting to the internet. Any help would be ten times appreciated, thanks.