Can't connect!

martink · 29 Dec 2007 at 19:04

Hi,

Just built my first PC in over a decade and feeling pretty chuffed as it all went smoothly!

Anyway, just went to connect to thenet and nothing. I have sky broadband and when I got my last PC I just connected the box and it worked no software loaded or anything.

On the new PC zilch is happening? Any ideas please?

Be really good If I could saort this, as the daughter's come to pick up the PC toomorrow!

Thanks,
Martin

martink · 29 Dec 2007 at 19:22

I dopey but not that bad

The PC has on board lan and I'm connect via cable straight to the sky modem, with a network cable. I'm using this connection and just swapping PCs.

Thanks,
Martin

martink · 29 Dec 2007 at 20:03

No, xp home.

martink · 29 Dec 2007 at 20:43

Switched the modem off for a couple of hours earlier and disconnected it.

How do I get to a DOS prompt?

martink · 30 Dec 2007 at 22:03

Well tried loading the sky software, to see if that had any bearing, sadly no. Soke to their help line who think, I don't have a Lan card installed?

Gonna try DOS now.

martink · 30 Dec 2007 at 22:34

Thanks guys fell asleep last night, big dinner!

Well tried loading the sky software, to see if that had any bearing, sadly no. Soke to their help line who think, I don't have a Lan card installed?

Gonna try DOS now:

Host name: pc name
primary Dns suffix :
Mode type:unknown
ip routing enabled: yes
wins proxy enabled: no

Ethernet adapter local area connection:

Connection-specific DNS suffix:
Description: NVIDA NForce networkinng controller
physical address: 00-14-85-30-90-B3
DHCP enabled: No
Ip address: 192.168.0.1
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Default gateway:

Pinging says four packets were sent with no loss of data. trip times all 0 ms

martink · 30 Dec 2007 at 23:30

Thanks, the router is a netgear and I can't see anything to switch on!

The Pc consists of gigabyte GA-K8n51GMF-9 board and 3500 Athlon, with a gig of ram and an hitachi deskstar, Lan and graphics are on the board.

Where do I go to set the card?

martink · 31 Dec 2007 at 00:00

Xp Home.

martink · 31 Dec 2007 at 10:43

Right had a go and DHCP is on, however when I type 192.168.01 on the new machine. I "the page cannot be displayed"?

In Lan properties Internet protocol (TCP/IP) is selected!

martink · 1 Jan 2008 at 21:10

I hope I meant that too

Anyway this has kind of resolved itself. As I mentioned the machine was for my daughter, which got collected yesterday. I thought she may aswell give AOL a shot.

Well, she loaded it up and the beast is rocking and rolling. She's also rattling the floorboards with the sub I got her.

Still would have like to get to the bottom of this

martink · 1 Jan 2008 at 22:08

Thanks, how would that have been fixed?