3rd Box Doesn't get IC anymore

[gxavier]

I have a small lan at my house. 2 XP boxes and a Mac. They connect to a Linksys Etherfast cble/dsl router, and then up into my cisco 675 1mbps dsl connection. DHCP assigns them each ip's, and they all used to connect fine to the internet. Now, for some wierd *** reason, one of XP boxes doesn't. It is still on the network, still sees the others, we can still see it, but it just wont connect to the internet. Ive tried EVERYTHING, even full reformats and different NICS, but nothing works. Ive assigned it new ip's, everything, but nothing works. Im at a loss here. Its driving me crazy.

[Ahcoraj]

Is DNS working? try pinging <a href="http://www.yahoo.com" target="_blank">www.yahoo.com</a> from a command prompt, it should resolve to.64.58.76.223 if it works DNs is OK if not there's your trouble. Please repost if that's not the cause....

[gxavier]

it wont ping anything except stuff on my local lan.

[Gollo]

[quote]Originally posted by gxavier:
<strong>it wont ping anything except stuff on my local lan.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Can you access files locally or not? Also does your router have port (or MAC address) blocking? Another thing too you might try releasing and renewing the ip addie. My SOHO gateway remembers the mac addie (at least I think it does) and assigns the same ip to it. I have reinstalled 3 os's and each time I still have the same addie. Oh well just my 0.02

[gxavier]

yes...it remembers and recognizes the mac address. i have released it multiple times. no avail. the new nics also gave it new ip's, and that didn't help either.

[NooNoo]

Have you checked the simple things, like the fire wall settings on xp?

[gxavier]

all settings are identical to my other xp box, and how they were when it worked perfect. i dont have xp firewall. but i have tried it both ways.

everything has been set to default and back, theres no option ive missed on that xp box.

[DocPC]

What NIC? Dump it and re-install it. Have had the same issue with SMC, Real-Tek, 3Com and a couple others. Also have had to run the "Wizard" multiple times to get a new ICS connection, especially with different OS's on the network.

[gxavier]

but this isn't a new IC. this worked perfectly before with the same NIC im using. Ive tried two different intel pro's, one dlink, and a linksys. Nothings working.

[myramp]

set static IP's and set DNS up. prob something wrong with dhcp assigning bad IP numbers.