Please help. I have a paper due tonight for an online class I am TAKING and I needed to upload some photos from my camera. Well my USB wasn't recognizing the camera, so I googled the error and followed the steps shown which said go into device manager, and delete everything under Universal Serial Bus controllers then reboot the computer. I did that, but my laptop froze so I had to restart it manually (holding down the POWER button).

When my computer booted back up, I got a very familiar surpise; went to go online, and my internet says it was "connected" and the connectivity is excellent, however it's not working. MSN won't work, every BROWSER I have won't work, email won't work, everything says I am not connected to the internet, but the little computer icon in the tray says I am. This has HAPPENED to me now about 12 times since I got my laptop about 2 years ago. I have an Asus A3H, wireless internet, Windows XP, SP2 if that helps any.

Also - Before I used to just go to system restore for everytime it did that, and it'd fix my internet. Now I went to system restore and apparently I have no restore points. I created one, but that did no good as I created it after this happened, hopeful SR would do something. Even though System Restore was turned on, and there was a bunch of restore points just before this happened. I'm freaking out now, can anyone please help me? Before when this happened, I tried EVERYTHING and the only thing that would work is system restore. Now that's gone, idk what to do. Thanks..

I should add that I have tried calling asus and isp but they as usual are no help.Go START>Run, type in:
cmd
Click OK.

At Command prompt, type in:
ping www.google.com
Hit Enter.
Post results.Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\LR>ping www.google.com
Ping request could not find host www.google.com. Please check the name and try again.

If it's a laptop, you sure, network card switch is on?Also you mention removing everything under USB controllers- the wireless network card doesn't happen to be USB, does