Don't laugh !  I am done with my build and everything worked out great except, I cannot get my sons puter online. They have a cable connection at thier house and its connected to his ethernet cable INPUT on his MOBO. I cannot get an online connection ? Could it be that I forgot to get him a modem connected to his mobo on my build ?
I assumed his asus A8N-VM CSM had one, looks like it doesn't ?You don't need an internal modem for broadband. Are the proper drivers loaded for the NIC? Are they using a router? Have you tried using the connection wizard to set up a connection?Proper drivers for the NIC  << not real sure on that, its thru his asus mobo lan ethernet connection and it says we are connected at 100 mbps  but cannot connect?
I tried many times with connection wizard and it goes thru ok ? The IP address keeps changing though ?
I am getting  error 678 and error 711 ... ?

I tried pinging the IP  and all 4 come back just fine ?  no problems
In the DOS command area i did a ipconfig / renew and got this error MESSAGE-
"  adapter local area connector 2 is not enabled for Dhcp " ?

" operation failed as no adapter is in the state permissable for this operation"     Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, I have to leave back to New England tomorrow at noon !

Scott   :-/Is TCP/IP set for static or dymanic?  If static, change to dynamic.

Cable should go straight thru without any login stuff to deal with like DSL (if you're using a router) and not straight through.

Alan <><  It does go straight thru and I will check the dynamic thing, thanks for info/help Alan !
 

** does anyone know of a FREE software DOWNLOAD which can run and fix the internet connection? **
My sons problem is still not resolved and I am not there to help him anymore.....