it would seem to me that the network adapter may be hooped, you may want to
try to get an identical adapter and see if the problem persists.

"Don" <don.mies@cox.net> wrote in message
news:1133857386.500610.192760@g14g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> Steve, in response to your questions/comments:
>
> 1) I only have one NIC on this machine. The adapter you identified
> says it is a Nortel adapter and the only thing that I have from Nortel
> is a VPN client that my wife uses with her company.
>
> 2) I could not disable the Nortel adapter so I uninstalled it and it is
> now gone. "ipconfig /all" does not show anything for this adapter any
> more but the problem still persists.
>
> 3) I tried resetting the tcp/ip using netsh as you suggested but it
> also did not solve the problem - even after a reboot.
>
> 4) I have downloaded and installed a new driver for my NIC since this
> all started so the driver is up to date and newer than the original one
> I was using. Rolling back to the old driver also made no difference
> (which makes sense since I was running the older driver when all this
> started).
>
> 5) Even though it says I only have 1 security update, this version of
> XP was absolutely current as of 2 weeks ago (when the problem started).
> I have kept it updated on a fairly regular basis. I've got SP2
> already loaded so maybe there is only 1 update on top of SP2...?
>
> 6) I tried a system restore before I updated the NIC driver and it said
> that there were no changes in any files since several known good points
> in time. I even checked all the way back to the last complete Windows
> update I did and there were no changes in any of the system files. BTW
> it's a real pain in the neck that the system restore reboots the
> machine and then tells you there is nothing to do! That's just stupid
> in my book.
>
> 7) It's getting late (past midnight) so I've got to get some sleep...
> I'll read the article you posted tomorrow and try some more.
>
> Thanks for all your help so far!
>