Originally Posted by linderman

sounds like your drivers are rather well balled up


you can try to uninstall the ethernet driver you have and then install the correct one


worse case senario ........ perform a win xp repair install ........ this will only remove all drivers from the windows system and allow you to start driver install from scratch ....... always do the chipset first ! then the others

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XP...install.htm#RI

this wont mess with your programs or data

it will perform another sequence that looks like brand new windows install ..... but its not ....... its just a brand new hardware detection and set-up