hi all
i've just built my first pc using some new parts and some old parts from an old dead pc basically all i did was added a new mobo (asus A8V-VM SE) a new cpu (AMD athlon 64 3200+) and a stick of crucial 512MB ram,i installed everything and put a fresh install of windows xp pro on the system and all went well but when i plugged in a ethernet cable it connects but won't let me online(also i have a windows sp2 disc but it won't let me install it it just says please make sure you have cryptographic services running which they are) i only have one net connection so i have to unplug my other pc to plug the new pc in could that be a problem,i'm no pc expert and i only started playing around with the old one just to see if i could but now i've found this problem it's become one of those things i don't want to let beat me so if anyone has any ideas whats goin wrong or what i'm doing wrong it would be great to hear from you

what is the ethernet connected to? Is it connected to a router? a modem, swtch etc.? you just cant connect to another computer via a single cable and expect to connect to the internet.

hi the ethernet cable come out of a normal virginmedia modem thats all i know really its dark blue with a few green leds and the lead goes straight into the pc hope that helps,thanks

Did you install the motherboard drivers? The LAN in particular?

As to SP2 some ideas here:

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...aphic+services


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i installed the drivers that i could there is one i can't remember of the top of my head the exact name but it was something like fast ethernet something or other (i will have a look when i get back home)some drivers(audio driver) would'nt install because it said i should upgrade to minimum to windows SP1.

i've finally got it to work online i did'nt know i would have to let the cable modem reset with the new pc so after all that all i had to do was disconnect the modem from the mains,nevermind it could of been worse thanks to all that tried to help me thanks again