Uggggggg, ok here is whats going on, I have a labtop and decided was time to clean it up after a few years of installs, uninstalls, you name it and what not so I decided to format the hard drive. Installed a clean copy of Windows XP SP3 and downloaded all the MS updates. Also installed all my programs Aware, SB&D, Malware, AVG and all my dvd player programs and what not.

At the time when I did at the place of work where I formatted the machine and did this it was fine. Now get home and hook it up to my network and I get this This connection has limited or no connectivity. You might not be able to access the Internet or some network resources and thats the futher it goes.

This is why I am stumped, the desktop computer works fine connecting to the net, so I went hummmm and here is what I did.

1. Unhooked my lan cable from the router and plugged it into the lab top, same results.
2. left it hooked up and rebooted labtop, same results
3. powered off the Cable modem and the labtop and unhooked the network cable from labtop. Booted the labtop back up, and left it unhooked from modem. Powered up the modem, after that hooked it into labtop again and same thing.
4. for the heck of it, left it all hooked up rebooted again, nadda.
5. last left it all on and just power down the cable modem, waited 1 minute and same thing.

Now you would think did I pick up an infection, no because after I did the install and came home, went to get on the net and thats when I ran into this problem. So before I blow my cool to chunk to labtop up against the wall, came here to see what other ideas you think I can try.

Frustated