NIC Troubleshooting.

[Zoio]

I updated to Servicepack 2 on Win XP Pro, im having problems with my connection.

I can stay connected to things like AIM, WOW, Ventrillo but whenever i try to access my internet through Firefox or IE Explorer the pages dont even load at all, no response except for Page Cannot be Displayed.

everytime i go Run>CMD>ipconfig /release>ipconfig /renew. my browsers pick up again but only briefly. this has happened after i installed SP2. i revered back to old drivers (on disk) to newly downloaded ones. and nothing

i got MSI Diamon Plus (nforce4 sli)
Mervell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (onboard)

anyone got any suggestions to what it might be?

 

[Law]

Firstly you want to see if you can ping the web server for instance try and ping www.yahoo.com and if you succeed you can move on to diagnosing the web appliications.

 

[Zoio]

its not the web applications.. because once the browsers stop working. if i try to use any other programs that use internet connection they dont work.