Dear All I have a thread going on which I have been getting some help but this is getting urgent, and I'm still nowhere near fixing the problem. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know: Original thread is at: http://www.computing.net/networking/wwwboard/forum/22879.html Many Thanks Tom

look here www.practicallynetworked.com

Do you get any errors when you run Ipconfig/release and then ipconfig/renew? It still sounds like a winsock problem? I had the exact same problem until I ran winsockfix.

When I try either of those commands, I get told: "Error: No adapters bound to TCP/IP are enabled for DHCP" I tried running winsockfix - it had no effect on this! Thanks Tom

paste the msg you get when you type in IPCONFIG to this forum so we can see it. Sounds like you have the NICs with static IPs.

Hi Jokila This is the return from ipconfig /all w2000 IP Configuration Host Name...: mycomp Primary DNS Suffix . . . .: Node Type: Broadcast IP Routing Enabled . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled . . . : No Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2: Connection-specific DNS Suffix .: Description. . .: [ethernet card name] Physical Address . . . .:00-50-FC-EC-E0-17 DHCP Enabled: Yes Autoconfig: Yes Autoconfig IP Address . . :192.168.0.11 [I assigned this myself. Can't remember what it says if I don't do that. Will try again this evening and post back] Subnet Mask . ...:255.255.0.0 Default Gateway: DNS Servers: Tom

Fantastic News - it works!! And it wasn't something you could have guessed at (although, on a different thread, I read someone had also had to do this) On the attempted 5th (out of 6) PCI slot, it worked. I have no idea why. It just won't work in the other 4 slots. I think that probably means that my firewire card won't work now, but I can live without that for a while. Thank you all so much for your advice - I've learned a lot along the way. See you around Tom