internet not working....sorta

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running vista64 home, and i can't surf the web with firefox or explorer 32bit. i can however get new email messages, and surf the web using explorer 64bit. i can't get the newsgroups to work, and my online games, COD4 and rfactor, don't show any available servers in the online portion.

i dual boot w/xp and everything is ok in xp. i didn't change anything that i know of in vista for everything to stop working. i just came home yesterday and was having this problem. i ran the windows defender and avg, and neither reported any viruses.

also i can ping everything in cmd promp, but can't even log onto my router (wrt54gs).

everytime i use either explorer 32bit or firefox, the page doesn't even try to load-it just goes straight to "exploer cannot open this webpage". when i try to repair the network connection, vista says that there is no problem.

i tried putting in the repair disk, but it looks like i can only transfer files or install the os.

not sure what to do, other than a complete reinstall.

please help :D thanks, lawrence
 

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64 bit works, but 32 bit does not??

Try this:

Start - in the search box type: CMD
In the dialog box that comes up type: netsh winsock reset
Then press the enter key to execute the command
Restart your computer
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Proudly Built by Me!
    CPU
    Intel Q6600
    Motherboard
    DFI UT LP P35 T2R
    Memory
    8GB OCZ Reaper DDR2 800 C44GK 4-4-4-12 2T
    Graphics card(s)
    Sapphire Radeon 4870x2
    Sound Card
    AuzenTech Prelude 7.1
    Monitor(s) Displays
    1 Acer P243 24" and 1 Samsung T260 26" Monitor/HDTV
    Screen Resolution
    Both are running at 19x12
    Hard Drives
    Seagate 1TB 7200.11 (Vista x64) Seagate 500GB 7200.11 (Win 7 x64)
    PSU
    OCZ GameXtream 900w
    Other Info
    FSB at 400 (1600) Mhz, CPU Multi @ 8 for 3.2Ghz
that did it!!!!! thanks a bunch Scott. what does that command actually do? and did i do something in my computer to cause this to happen? thanks again. lawrence
 

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System One

What that does is reset the communications (TCP/IP) stack.
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Just a user here, so it's hard to say off the top of my head what might have happened on your comp to cause it. I have a little notebook I write useful tidbits in, and I thought I saw your issue before. I did, and that was the solution I had written down... There's some MCSE types on the site here who could explain better.

Just glad it worked. :)
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Proudly Built by Me!
    CPU
    Intel Q6600
    Motherboard
    DFI UT LP P35 T2R
    Memory
    8GB OCZ Reaper DDR2 800 C44GK 4-4-4-12 2T
    Graphics card(s)
    Sapphire Radeon 4870x2
    Sound Card
    AuzenTech Prelude 7.1
    Monitor(s) Displays
    1 Acer P243 24" and 1 Samsung T260 26" Monitor/HDTV
    Screen Resolution
    Both are running at 19x12
    Hard Drives
    Seagate 1TB 7200.11 (Vista x64) Seagate 500GB 7200.11 (Win 7 x64)
    PSU
    OCZ GameXtream 900w
    Other Info
    FSB at 400 (1600) Mhz, CPU Multi @ 8 for 3.2Ghz
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