the unsolved internet problem.....:(

[Zeebo]

Hey everyone,

I don't know if any of you guys know this but i have encountered the unsolved internet problem. Let me breifly explain.

I don't know how this happened but it must of when i updated my GeForce 4 MX 440 video card drivers (i hate this video card). Anyway the problem is simple yet impossible to solve. My internet runs perfectly...fast, smooth, i can download, i can webcam, i can use MSN but i CANNOT play games online nor can i run Team Speak. Jeeeez, i can't even play the games MSN MEssenger provides like solitaire showdown and minsweeper or tic tac toe LOL. Internet works superbly fine but i can't see lists of servers on gamespy, or AMericas Army, or Battle Field: 1942/Vietnam. I don't understand.


----what i have tried?-----

I unplugged and replugged my cable modem many times...nothing
I exited my firewall (including the one in control panel/network connections)
I rebooted my machine
I uninstalled my NIC in device manager and let my PC reinstall it upon start up
I did a system restore to a previous date
I did a spyware scan with adaware 6.0 and spy bot search and destroy
I disabled my local LAN connection, then enabled it, and clicked repair
I reinstalled my modem USB driver
I called my ISP and they said my modem is working so well that they haven't seen a modem that fast for a while............????????????????????????????

I have lost my patience and so much time.

If anyone on this planet can help me I will put you in my book of geniuses.

By the way, Re-formatting the PC won't work either, or so i've heard...

Thanks for the time to read all that.. I await for the hero.

Take it easy everyone.

Zeeb-

[jong2k4]

If it happened when updating your video card drivers, try uninstalling the new driver and reinstalling the old one; see if that changes anything. If it does, then you know the video card drivers really are the source of the problem, although that doesn't seem terribly likely. -edit- I see you already did a system restore

While I'm so out of touch with the gaming world I'm not really sure what all of the games are that you mentioned, it seems like some them are little Java games. Try installing the latest Java plugins for your browser.

What exactly happens when you're trying to run one of the non-Java games? The game searches for available servers and comes up empty every single time? Are there any error messages associated with it, or is it just blank?

[Zeebo]

Yes exactly, it won't show any servers and i can't login into my accounts while inside the games. In Internet Explorer i can log into accounts. So strange.

--what else i tried--...

I forgot to mention that i uninstalled my video card from device manager and restarted my PC. Then my pc reinstalled old video card drivers yet that would fix the problem. then i installed new drivers and still it wouldn't work.

After posting this thread last night, I ran a full system virus scan and it seems as thought it found 3 infections but they were all fixed.


I'm starting to lose hope :/

[glc]

I see you scanned with Ad-Aware 6.0 - this is obsolete. You need to use Ad-Aware 1.05 SE and Spybot S&D 1.3, and update the definitions before scanning.