all windows os's use winsock




try goign to device manager, uninstall the nic, reboot and reinstlal the drivers

if that doesn't work, go to office depot and pick u a pci nic. you can get the dlink 530+ for under 15 bucks w/ tax

 

winsock must be another name for something? I know TCP/IP, IPX/SPX (netBIOS/NetBUI) and Appletalk but I've never seen winsock. I had an old dial up program from DOS6.2/Win3.11 that had that in the name, but that's the last time I remember seeing it.

What OS is on the old computer? Maybe your ISP has you set to a static address so your never going to hit a DHCP client. If you've got XP, right click on My Network Places and go to properties, open Local Area Connection and go to properties (on the old machine). Open the properties for Internet Protocol TCP/IP and see what it says. If it's set to Obtain IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically, you should be configured right (assuming the new computers also setup the same way). If there's information specified in there, write it down and transfer it to the new computer. Win98 is similiar but a little more confusing and I don't have a win98 box infront of me. You do basically the same thing, right click on network neighborhood and go to the TCP/IP properties for your ethernet adaptor and the same info is in there but spread of several pages. See what's setup on your old machine and duplicate it on the new one.

 

tcp/ip and winsock are related.


check out hklm/system/current control set/services

 

i think i'm going to end up buying a nic card to see if that works. if not, i could just return it i guess :rick:

 

and yea, the tcp/ip settings are identical.

 

Hmm, I just turned on the new computer and the internet works all the sudden

:yay: thanks guys for all of your help

 

w00t!!!~~~1111

 

If the old computer was setup the same way, it must have just finally refreshed the DHCP info (windows is dumb that way sometimes). Glad it's working for you! Now go play some games on that bitch.

 

 

so happy for you now close this threadzor!