Cannot Connect To Internet After Installing New Hardware

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I recently installed a new sound card into my pc. I installed the new software and everything worked just fine. The problem is I can no longer connect to the internet. When I try to connect I can see that my ISP username and password ARE authenticated. The status of my connection shows that I AM connected, but it clearly does not seem that I am. I don't see why changing my sound card whould affect my connected to the internet, but apparently it has. I've spent probably a total of 10 to 15 hours checking all of my network and internet settings. I tried putting the old sound card back in and reinstalling the old software even though it didn't make any sense for me to do that

Has anyone come across a problem like this? Does anyone know what has happened? Please help

Thanks
Chri
 
Chris said:
I recently installed a new sound card into my pc. I installed the new software and everything worked just fine. The problem is I can no longer connect to the internet. When I try to connect I can see that my ISP username and password ARE authenticated. The status of my connection shows that I AM connected, but it clearly does not seem that I am. I don't see why changing my sound card whould affect my connected to the internet, but apparently it has. I've spent probably a total of 10 to 15 hours checking all of my network and internet settings. I tried putting the old sound card back in and reinstalling the old software even though it didn't make any sense for me to do that.

Has anyone come across a problem like this? Does anyone know what has happened? Please help.
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Chris,

it is unclear what happened, but please have a look at
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm anyway.

It is possible that the problem was caused by something else.
And it is possible that removing all network components,
rebooting, then adding and configuring them again can solve your
problem even if you can't find out what caused it.

Hans-Georg
 
I tried what you said, but it still does not work. I opened command prompt and typed ipconfig /renew and the response came back saying there was an error renewing interface Local Area Connection 4 (thats the onboard connection I use). An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. Know what this means

Thanks for help.
 
chris said:
I tried what you said, but it still does not work. I opened command prompt and typed ipconfig /renew and the response came back saying there was an error renewing interface Local Area Connection 4 (thats the onboard connection I use). An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. Know what this means?

Thanks for help.
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Chris,

no, sorry, never seen that before.

Hans-Georg
 
I have traced several of these problems to improperly configured winsock
LSPs. Run "winmsd" and go to Components/Network/Protocol. Look at the
names in the list, anything with "MSAFD" in it or the "RSVP xxx Service
Provider" should be fine. Anything else is suspect, and uninstalling the
owning program might help.

If that fails or your provider list is empty, you may need to rebuild the
catalog from scratch. The following instructions will rebuild your catalog
for TCP/IP. If you are using any other transports (If you don't know, then
you probably aren't) then you will have to reinstall them as well.

NOTE: You may want to print out these instructions or save them to your
hard disk before starting.

1. Backup and delete the following registry keys

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock2

2. Reboot

3. Go to the network connections folder, right click the icon for your
network connection, and select properties.

4. Click install, choose "protocol", and click "add..."

5. Click "Have Disk...", enter "\windows\inf", click OK

6. Select "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), click OK

7. When the process in complete, reboot


--

Ken Wickes [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


prompt and typed ipconfig /renew and the response came back saying
there was an error renewing interface Local Area Connection 4 (thats the
onboard connection I use). An operation was attempted on something that is
not a socket. Know what this means?
 
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