Network cable unplugged

i've been reading on other sites (before posting here) and there somethimes the problem is IPv6, and IPv6 is not supported by our ISP yet (they're slow, they're working on it)

Have you tried turning it on?

yes i have, didn't make any difference

to answer AEM's question, no i have not. i couldn't find my product over there (neither could i find any windows 7 compatible driver update). i've been looking over the iternet to find the latest driver for it, and concluded i already had the last one (it was no download site, couldn't find any download)

Well I am afraid I have offered all I can in hopes of trying to figure out the problem

I have been awake for about 20 hours or so I have lost track I have been repairing other machines in my office as I try to help here my mind is in need of sleep so good luck I will check back to see if you get this sorted out good luck my friend.

thanks, good night :)

Have you checked all your bios settings like making sure LAN boot ROM is turned off maybe just clear your CMOS and load factory defaults and see what happens.

This whole thing has just seemed not right to me something is being overlooked in my opinion.

Are you sure that the "other" computers are not using static IP addresses if they were it would explain a lot, I say this because it was working fine until you loaded 7 and now you can't get it to work in XP again, if your network was set up to use static IP's no matter what OS you put on there it's not going to work without having an IP set up in the IP range of the network.

I am sure all the other computers use a dynamic IP address
After some reading and tweaking to my computer i was able to get internet directly trough the modem, i am still not able to internet using the router
the NIC is an integrated VIA Vt8237r