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This issue has been resolved for me. As it turns out it was the Intergrated NIC card on my motherboard that went bad. Dell swapped out the motherboard and the internet immediately worked. Thanks to all who responded!

Hey Neo, It kinda sounds like you might have a Static IP set? i've read on other forums that usually if you have an internet connection but no internet (like you describe) it might be because your not obtaining DHCP automatically. -matt

Hey Carl, Heres the latest, I ended up calling Dell support regardin the "NIC Failure" on boot up (the intergrated NIC is bad). I am under warranty so they are sending a new motherboard to replace it. We will see what happens next. Since I didnt get a disconnection acknowledgement when I...

Hey Kevin, After talking to Tech support again, they recommended i buy a "windows 7 compatible" NIC ... however i thought the intel PRO 1000 mt desktop adapter was compatible. I switched out the cable, it didnt work, but what was interesting was that when I unplugged the cable, it didnt say...

Babbling for a just a moment... Under the Local Area Network Connection with win 7 ... the sent and received packets is just always pegged at 0 ... it might move to 1 packet sent... but other than that both numbers are 0. This is what bothers me the most because when I install XP (even from...

Hey kevin, Thanks so much for responding. I've swapped out the ethernet cables - switched the ports (even tested in DMZ port) - booted up without the router (ie a direct connection) - and swapped out internet adapters. All with Power cycles and all to no avail. I've done pretty much...

Just to update this thread. What I have found so far this week: I've called Microsoft tech support, they placed me with a level 2 tech agent. 2 hours on the phone and couldnt get it going.. they are calling me back tomorrow to see if they can do anything else. I did manage to get the...

Lindsay - In the device manager, it does say "Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter" , there is no yellow mark on it. In fact there are no yellow marks on anything in the device manager. I had one on the Multimedia audio controller but i solved that by downloading Realtek audio codec. The results...

Hey Reg, Thanks for the help again, unfortunately it didnt work. I cant download the Win 7 64 Home Premium driver because it says that the driver is "in box" and unavailable for download. Although I did download the Win Vista 64 home premium but that didnt work... i ran as administrator and in...

Hi Reg, Thanks so much for a quick response. If I go to Start - CMD - Ping google.com it says "Ping request could not find host google.com. Please check the name and try again" I tried Google, google.com, and even Google all had the same result as above. I think one of the things to point out...

I'm struggling with this issue incredibly!.. heres my situation / info: Dell XPS 710 (purchased late 2006/early 2007) motherboard = nforce 590i SLI Sound = SB Fatality Platnium Champ edition Video = 7950 GX2 4 Gigs ram 2x SATA / RAID 160 Raptor WD (about 298 gigs) Quad Core 2.66ghz intel...