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Oh..it was an Intel® PRO/100 VE Network Connection. Originally, I uninstalled the driver and simply rebooted the machine, letting XP find and install driver. I also went to Sony Vaio and downloaded and installed the driver that was originally installed on my machine...I bought a generic US Robotics adapter from Best Buy...specs are at the office....

Thanks. I actually narrowed it down to a fried network adapter through process of elimination via the following steps: I tried to ping the router/gateway and Destination was unreachable. I power cycled the router and pc....no go. I verified the ethernet connection was good by plugging cable into different pc. I reinstalled network card driver...no go. I reset winsock...no go. I ran netdiag /test:winsock and got similar results on functioning and malfunctioning machines. I reinstalled TCP/IP and verified settings..no go.....finally... I went to the store and paid ten dollars for a new network adapter, installed it, and problem was solved. Not sure if I could have deduced this was the case more quickly...but all is working now. Thanks again

All computers but one can get to router and internet. I tried: power cycling router restarting computer resetting winsock reinstalling TCP/IP.... I cannot ping 192.168.0.1 I ran netdiag /test:winsock and got similar results on both problem machine and another pc I have verified that I can plug ethernet cable into another pc and connect with that pc. I'm wondering if my network adapter is fried? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.