panzer said:
its xp pro with a clean install from scratch
intel mobo d875bzlk with 2.4 mhz
home made computer cable modem
and no router. sp1 patch applied
read a little more on this site and other people are
having the same problem when there firewire is installed
and my sound card has a firewire port .i tried turning it
off but no luck. Bios just updated 1 month ago
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Did you have the XP Internet Connection Firewall enabled
or some third-party firewall enabled before actually connecting
that cable modem after that clean install?
If so, did you then install all XP critical updates?
If not, you may have been hit by a worm such as MSBLASTER
or one of its variants. Do you have a functioning updated
Anti Virus program installed?
Have you scanned this system for spywares?
I lost the previous thread and forget if you have tried switching
the NIC and Sound Card to different PCI slots.
I did see one post where a 1394(firewire) / NIC conflict was
resolved by rebuilding the winsock keys in the registry:
Step 1: Delete registry keys
A)Open Regedit from the Run line (Start > Run - regedit)
B)Go to both of the following keys, EXPORT each of them, and then delete them:
(To export a key, you right click on it and choose "export" - you can choose where to export them to -
DESKTOP is handy -
and you need to type in a file name such as "exported Winsock key" / "exported WinSock2 key"
and then click on SAVE)
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2
C)Restart the computer
NOTE: It is important to restart the computer after deleting the Winsock keys.
Doing so causes the XP operating system to recreate shell entries for those two
keys. If this is not done, the next step does not work correctly.
Step 2: Install TCP/IP on top of itself
Go to Control Panel | Network Connections
A)Open the properties window of the network connection (Local Area Connection)
B)Click Install
C)Click Protocol, then Add
D)Click Have Disk
E)Type the path to the \%systemroot%\inf folder (usually C:\Windows\inf) and click OK
(if you try to click Browse, then browse to the \inf folder,
it may not show up in the list)
F)You should now see "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)" in the list of available
protocols. Select it and click OK.
G)Restart the computer
When the computer reboots you will have functional Winsock keys.
If so, then be sure to delete the exported winsock and winsock2 reg files.
(You don't want to accidentally put them back in the registry)
Side effects and possible problems:
This method will restore basic functionality to the Winsock keys, but is not a
complete rebuild. On a default install of Windows XP the registry key:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock2\
Parameters\Protocol_Catalog9\Catalog_Entries will have 11 sub-keys.
When applying this method, the Catalog_Entries will only have 3 sub-keys.
However, it works and there does not appear to be any side effects.
The missing entries relate back to the:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces key.
Also, third-party proxy software or firewalls may need to be reinstalled.
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