WIN XP - HP 510x and Realtek8139

[Eddie]

New install due to disk failure, replaced Hard drive with
identical one. verifed CMOS, BIOS-ethernet enabled,
jumpers on drive set and re-installed OS via the recovery
discs. System booted and loaded properly, everything
installed and hardware ok as per device and event
managers. Nothing else has been loaded as far as updates
ETC...Network connection icon properties shows a valid
connection, but will not load home page or any other
internet site. Yet I can ping local computers and not
time out. Connection settings..IP, gateway..etc..etc..etc
verified and re-verified. The ping command returns a time
out when pinging beyond my gateway-other computer on same
network are ok. i even tested this network line with
another PC w/o any trouble.I tried installing a 3com
ethernet card and same problem exists, yet troubleshooter
and device mgr report everything as normal and w/o
conflict. This is very weird. Friend is experienceing
similar problem with another HP unit after installing XP.
Said it might be something specific to HP. BTW the 510x
model has to use recovery discs in order to load XP, you
cannot simply install a retail version of XP on this
machine- verified with HP. Anyone have any ideas that can
resolve this issue. The pc is stock and is not being
overclocked in any way. All apps have reloaded properly
and no updates as far as windows have been performed - as
it was working before system crash w/o updates applied.

 

[itnetjet]

Need more info. At home? When you say gateway, do you
mean switches, routers, etc.. How big of an environment?
Can you actually make it out of your LAN? Others sitting
next to you on the same LAN segment can make it out of
the firewall?

Run ipconfig /all on both machines, make sure servers,
etc. have same numbers & your machine has an ip that is
the same all the way to the fourth octet.

You may need a proxy.pac file if your on a big net(run ms
search on both machines), or the .pac file may be on
another server. Ck IE Tools, Inet Ops, Connections, Lan
settings, Proxy & ck the advanced button. That tells you
your gateway info if needed. I used to do a static list
of allowable ip's to reach the inet router, make sure
your on the list if that's the case.

Ck dhcp & DNS addresses. Setup DHCP to auto, check
config on machine that's working. Can you do a ping -a
on internal addresses?