Internet connection out after storm..

August 13, 2005 3:55 PM

We had a power outage, now one computer on my network cannot connect to the internet. What happened?

I tried changing the cables, the ports it uses on the router, power cycling the cable modem, resetting the router, reinstalling the NIC drivers, restoring windows to a previous date, starting in safe mode with networking... the weird thing is, I can ping sites from a command prompt. I can't connect using IE, Firefox, MSN, AIM, Outlook or anything else. My next step, I figure, is either reformatting or getting a new ethernet card.

Anyone have any ideas to what I could be missing?

posted by phox to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

check your network settings?

All else fails, swap the NIC out, shame on you for not having fifteen spares.
posted by angry modem at 4:17 PM on August 13, 2005

Remove TCP/IP, reboot, reinstall TCP/IP.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 4:26 PM on August 13, 2005

you're having DNS issues. We had a previous question where the DNS was failing, but oddly enough, it was the TCP/IP drivers that had gotten burnt, so try mcd's suggestion first. After that, check to make sure your DNS servers are set accurately/getting passed via DHCP/whatever.
posted by fishfucker at 4:27 PM on August 13, 2005

Response by poster: After downloading WinsockFix, my connection is now restored. YAY!

Thanks for the replies.
posted by phox at 6:43 PM on August 13, 2005