Used restore disk now can't connect

[crazyquiet]

Due to system crash I had to do a full restore of my persario 5440 using the restore disk tht came with system. I have now reloaded my ethernet card and the drivers for it but can not connect to IP sever. I know my cable modem is working fine because I am using it right now on my other system. I have checked everyting I can think of even used dr watson and all seems to checkout fine. I have good signal lights on ethernet card so what am I overlooking?

[iisbob]

When you restored your pc to it's factory state, you probaly also restored the original pc ( netbios ) name it came with.

Open your network properties and make sure you rename your pc to the account your isp gave you and make sure your workgroup is what they gave you.

example; computer name may be pc101 & workgroup may be @home.

You'll have to restart for the changes to take affect, and if our isp uses DHCp make sure you have " assign an ip automatically " checked; if not then you'll have to manually enter the ip address & default gateway settings your isp gave you.



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iisbob

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[crazyquiet]

Originally posted by iisbob:
When you restored your pc to it's factory state, you probaly also restored the original pc ( netbios ) name it came with.

Open your network properties and make sure you rename your pc to the account your isp gave you and make sure your workgroup is what they gave you.

example; computer name may be pc101 & workgroup may be @home.

You'll have to restart for the changes to take affect, and if our isp uses DHCp make sure you have " assign an ip automatically " checked; if not then you'll have to manually enter the ip address & default gateway settings your isp gave you.


thanks had already checked that and ensured it was correct in accordance to IP, so I just removed the ethernet drivers again for the tenth time, it still didn't work so I let it set and run for about a hour ar so without connecting the ethernet cable. When I reconnected the cable and tryied to connect it started working. I think I had put the TCP/IP information in the network properties to many times.