The LAN connection to my ADSL router/modem has gone dead. Please can you suggest what I can try to fix this problem. I'm nowconvinced it is somewhere in the software.
I'm as certain as I can that it is not ahardware problem. I have swapped ports, leads and cables (and even installed a network card and driver software in parallel to by on-board network connection) until I'm blue in the face, but cannot get either the new or old connection to work.
I have worked through everything I can find about the LAN connections under Network Connections in Control Panel. In the opening screen, it shows the connections as enable, but when I try to repair either connection (with a cable connected to the router/modem) it reports that it failed to renew the connection. (I have two other computers connected to the router modem, a Win 2k laptop and an elderly WIN 98 desktop, and they connect just fine.)
The connection died after a failed installation of Checkpiont Securemote VPN software, which I then de-installed. (Warning - I strongly recommend never installing this stuff, it seems riddled with bugs, but my workplace uses it so I had to try...). I believe that Securemote altered something that I have not been able to locate. I have even tried re-installing this stuff to no avail.
I am using Win XP home on a self-built machine based on a P4 and Asus P4S533 mother board. In almost 2 years of use this is the first problem I haven't been able to fix, and it's driving me nuts! Please help me stop babbling before the men in white coats come for me... or at least help me fix this.
