internet not working....sorta

[orb]

running vista64 home, and i can't surf the web with firefox or explorer 32bit. i can however get new email messages, and surf the web using explorer 64bit. i can't get the newsgroups to work, and my online games, COD4 and rfactor, don't show any available servers in the online portion.

i dual boot w/xp and everything is ok in xp. i didn't change anything that i know of in vista for everything to stop working. i just came home yesterday and was having this problem. i ran the windows defender and avg, and neither reported any viruses.

also i can ping everything in cmd promp, but can't even log onto my router (wrt54gs).

everytime i use either explorer 32bit or firefox, the page doesn't even try to load-it just goes straight to "exploer cannot open this webpage". when i try to repair the network connection, vista says that there is no problem.

i tried putting in the repair disk, but it looks like i can only transfer files or install the os.

not sure what to do, other than a complete reinstall.

please help :D thanks, lawrence

 

[Scotteq]

64 bit works, but 32 bit does not??

Try this:

Start - in the search box type: CMD
In the dialog box that comes up type: netsh winsock reset
Then press the enter key to execute the command
Restart your computer

 

[orb]

that did it!!!!! thanks a bunch Scott. what does that command actually do? and did i do something in my computer to cause this to happen? thanks again. lawrence

 

[Scotteq]

What that does is reset the communications (TCP/IP) stack.
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Just a user here, so it's hard to say off the top of my head what might have happened on your comp to cause it. I have a little notebook I write useful tidbits in, and I thought I saw your issue before. I did, and that was the solution I had written down... There's some MCSE types on the site here who could explain better.

Just glad it worked.