i dont have xp2 as i thought there was a problem with windows xp - so i did a
compelte reinstall and yet stil lhave the same problem - this has been
bugging me for a month !!

"amerikon" wrote:

> Max
>
> I have the exact same issue with two pc at home. The network was running
> fine until I rebuilt them, now I just get low connectivity errors and when I
> try to repair it it fails. Apparently this is a bug in sp2, I tried some
> fixes but none worked. I am going to try setting up the network before
> installing sp2 to see what happens. If you have found a fix please let me
> know.
>
> Regards.
>
> "Max" wrote:
>
> > at my work i have a network of computer on a peer to peer - ont of the
> > computers - dell hasa intergrated nic card and is installed with a second nic
> > card - about a month ago the intergtrated card appeared to stop working and
> > would not allow other computer to connect to it or allow connection to the
> > internet. so in this case i changed the cable to the other nic that was on
> > the computer - this was fine for a couple of weeks and then the same thing
> > happened again - thought might be viruse /spyware - did full checks - nothing
> >
> > today i did a full reinstall of the operating system and wiped hard disk
> >
> > however still get the same problem and even though i get activity light on
> > the respective nic cards - there is still no connect to either any computer
> > or the internet.
> >
> > another things is that this computer used to connect to the internet
> > through another computer - when i run networking wizard on my computer which
> > is not working using the intergrated nic card it does no recognise the ICS
> > computer - however when i swap the cable to the other NIC on the computer and
> > run the network wizrd again it reconisezs the ICS but wont allow me to broswe
> > the web.
> >
> > so i have swaped the cables which did not resolve the issue - reinstalled
> > the operating system - which did not resolve the issue and both nic have both
> > failed to respond within 1 week which i find very stange.
> >
> > so i know that this is a long problem - is thereany software which will
> > thorougly test nic apart from the networking tool on windows xp - as it is
> > weird for both cards to fail within a short time of each other
> >
> > thanks