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Well, it seems that I posted too soon. I first booted to XP after I cleared the CMOS, and that didn't work. However, right after that, I tested the system with the Knoppix Live CD, and it worked. Detected and configured right after kernal decompress, and a quick check with Konqueror shows a...

Well that didn't go well. eMachines has loaded a custom BIOS to the board, which means that none of the Intel BIOS will update overtop, as they don't recognize it. I tried both the express method (from within XP), and the boot-disk method, neither of which worked. A check of the machines BIOS...

Oh yes. It's there. It's been installed, uninstalled, rolled-back, updated, everything.

Once again, thanks for the replies, and I'll try to give as much info as possible. Yes, the loopback interface does ping, in both XP and Linux. I did test this originally, but I didn't know if it meant anything. Shoulda mentioned it. It's an Intel 845GVSR. I'm going to flash the BIOS in a...

Thank you for your reply, I'll try to answer as best as possible. Both the on-board network device and the new card were configured for DCHP, and in Windows, the IP reported was a 169.x.x.x address. When Window's repair was tried, the message box said that the IP could not be renewed. For...

Ok, I'm going to try and explain this best I can, becuase it still confuses the hell out of me. I'm visiting my parents for the week, so of course that means tech support time while I'm there. They tell me that the internet hasn't been working for a few days on their computer, they were...