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by shinigami.shukun

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alright i have a Compaq Presario V6000 that came with vista and down graded to XP pro...

now my problem is i have a wireless internet and my computer has gone from always connecting to net during vista set up to randomly not wanting to for absolutely no reason and doesnt want to hard line net ether and yet it can connect to my local area network...

i have drivers for the bastard but some reason they not working or something... so i was wondering if i could get some help fixing it... because it is really getting annoying having to use my bad computer to do things that require net...

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by rob miners

Type netsh winsock reset at the command prompt, and then press ENTER.

How to troubleshoot network connectivity problems in Internet Explorer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936211

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by rob miners

as it is a discontinued model. Here are 5 choices on the models for XP divers.

http://search.hp.com/gwukeng/query.html?lang=en&qp=segment%3Aany&hps=&hpn=Products+%26+Services&la=en&cc=uk&charset=utf-8&qt=v6000

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by shinigami.shukun

i did more researching and found out many peoiple are having the same problem as me and its a hardware problem needing me to send back my laptop to get its mother board re serviced of something

by trizicuz

1) You've stated that you downgraded to Vista, now I am going to assume you bought this computer new? Which means chances are it won't have XP Drivers.

2) Get the Vista drivers (.inf) go into device management (Start > Run... > 'devmgmt.msc' > Ok > Find your Network Card > Right Click It > Properties > Update Driver... > No Not This Time > Install from Specific Location (Advanced) > Don't Search I will choose... > Have Disk... > Find the .inf file > Next > Ok

3) Before doing step 2) check the manufactures site to be sure that they don't have an XP driver.

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