internet connection problem

pogcica

My desktop will not connect to internet,giving an error saying no connectivity, I tried checking cables and my laptop is fine on same, I also tried another Ethernet card in a spare slot on PC with same results so I feel it is a problem with PC. My network adapters are NVIDIA nForce networking controler on motherboard and aRealtek RTL8139 family PCI fast ethernet NIC, Both are looking fine in device manager, Running XP and in trouble shooting it says it cannot update IP adress or something,Also said something about checking the modem in device manager but it does not show my modem in device manager, Is there anything i can check? I hope its something stupid but i haven't a clue what to look at

Thanks in advance

Capt'n Midnight

have you installed a firewall recently ?

which type of router do you have - to see if it's giving out IP addresses or if you are not using a router then you should be getting the IP address directly from the ISP

pogcica

Problems gone now, checked and tightened everything and working fine now.

Thanks for the quick reply, Still no idea what it was, just annoyed the hell out of me for 2 hours