Tell you what, this going to sound dumb but try it, it worked for me before. Shut down both computers, and unplug the cable modem (don't just turn the swtich off). Go in the other room and get a drink of something. Like reseting the computer in your car by pulling the negative terminal, some cable modems may have memory and remember the MAC address of the computer they were hooked to. They probably eventually update once in a while but this is a way to force it. After leaving it unpluged for a few seconds, plug the cable modem back in (to the new computer too) and let it go through it's diagnoistic light flashes. Once it's stable, turn your new computer on, hopefully the cable modem will see the computer and establish it's connection. If it doesn't, try the run/cmd then ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew.

What OS is on your old computer? It's possible your ISP doesn't use DHCP and your given a static address. If that doesn't work, we'll have to check the old computer for an IP.

 

is it pulling a valid ip address? if not move the nic to a different slot.

if so, its prboably winsock issues. pm me for a fix

 

ok i'll try that when i'm home

 

i believe so.

 

He's using the built in NIC as far as I can tell and it's not getting a valid IP because the DHCP refresh is timing out (assuming his ISP uses DHCP). Your using using XP right? I haven't even seen winsock since dialing up on a win95 machine.

 

yep, xp pro.

 

i wish i was at home so i could fiddle with it:happysad: sigh.

 

damn bro how long ahve u been trying to fix this PC? i hope i can get my stuff ready and working without problems....

 

:werd:

 

Any luck? I want to know if this thing is working yet or not?