xp pro cannot ping own computor

[Guest]

i cannot ping my own computor when i use windows to scan the network it
fails; i can ping local loop and default gateway and the router these are ok
i have no problems connecting to the web and my isp is ok
do you have any ideas???
my ip address is 192.168.1.2
thanks

 

[Guest]

Might be a firewall problem.

Otherwise, probably a broken TCP/IP stack, or problem with the network-card
driver. Uninstalling/reinstalling often cures.

Might also be an IRQ conflit with another PCI device. I know this isn't
supposed to happen with PCI cards.... but it does.

 

[AJR]

Paul - I admit I am slightly confused by your post. When you tried to ping
your computer - was this from the computers console? If so did you ping
127.0.0.1 or ping localhost? Or were you pinging 192.168.1.2 from another
computer?

 

[Guest]

ajr my network scan failed on ping 192 168 1 2 i tried ping 127 0 0 1 and it
is fine
i am out of my depth here but i am pinging from my own computor and the
scanfail report says 192.168.1.2 is my ip address also 192.168.1.1 is my
router but that is ok
does that make sense? i switched of my norton security and the windows
firewall is disabled many thanks