I have a laptop running WinXP Pro (on 2 separate partitions, one for work, one for home). The home partition all of a sudden (after a year of working fine) cannot access the internet. I'm on a wired/wireless network at home. The other partition is working fine.

I can access other computers on the network, but I cannot access the internet either wired or wireless. When I check the network status I do have an ip address. When I try to renew it it takes a very long time while trying to acquire network address. It eventually acquires an ip, but still no internet.

I thought maybe an infection, but I've run all kinds of scans and found nothing. I uninstalled all network adapters and let Windows reinstall them.

I'm at a loss as to what to try next. Any ideas?

Thanks.

What's the ip address? How are you connecting? Dial-up? Cable Modem? DSL? Using a wired or wireless connection?

Life's more painless for the brainless.

ip address is 192.168.1.xxx.
Connecting via cable modem and then Linksys WRT54G wired/wireless router. I've tried connecting both wired and wireless without success