Reformatted hd, reinstalled XP, no internet connection

[Charles Jones]

It sounds like the motherboard was replaced? Is she using a PCI ethernet 
card or the onboard?  The reason I ask is because I believe that cox 
locks your modem to the MAC address of your NIC, so if she got a new 
mobo and is using the onboard...the MAC address will be different and 
you have to call Cox and get them to register the new one (or use a non 
cox cable modem or router that lets you spoof the old MAC address).

eculbert wrote:
> That person reformatted the hd, then tried and
> successfully got xp sp1 to load and it will boot. But
> the cox connection wont boot from the computer to the
> cox box. The external box says by the idiot lights
> that it is talking to the outside world according to
> her, but the computer no longer connects to the
> internet after she tried to upgrade the amd 64 3000
> and msi board to the service pack 3. 
>
> Apparently something in the bios or somewhere firmware
> changed. Sounds like the eth0 connection isn't doing
> its thing after the sp3 messed with the computer.
>
> I may get her brother to haul my old system down to
> make sure that the cox box works to the internet.
>
> Any ideas? 
>
> One idea I have is to first try and figure out how to
> get to the bios at startup.. (delete, f-1, etc) and
> tell it to reset to factory or do you think this is
> feasible solution? 
>
> Second Idea. Could sp3 have somehow hosed the firmware
> in her ethernet card?
>
>
>
> Ed/ke7feg
>
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