Old Intel Board-Can't get Internet to Work

[PeleLTU]

My client gave me an old machine and just asked for it to be wiped cleaned and to have XP reinstalled. I installed XP SP2. Here are the machine specs:

Board: Intel D845GBV
CPU: Pentium 1.6 GHz
RAM: 256 MB

All drivers were downloaded and installed except for two which have something to do with USB 2.0. The device manager shows no errors.

I can't get the internet to connect. I downloaded the Intel Lan driver for the board....Intel Pro/100 VE Network Connection which shows up under device manager with no issues. Under add/remove programs it added two items:

1. Intel PRO Network Adapters and Drivers
2. Intel PROSet

I noticed the BIOs was out of date so I updated that successfully, but it did not resolve the issue. (I am able to get the machine to connect to the internet via a PCI ethernet card.) Under network connections it just says Acquiring Network Connection.

Any suggestions?

 

[l337]

boot up in your favourite boot cd ubcd or minipe etc. then check if the network card will work then if not u can safely say its a hardware problem. if it does work then its a software. either way u rule one or the other out this way

 

[PeleLTU]

Update:

I connected it again because I noticed there was a Intel ProSet program that had some diagnostics tools. I ran the first test which gave a pass to the following:

EEPROM
Control Registers
PHY Loopback
MAC Loopback
Link

Then I ran the advanced tests. The first was Sender-Send packet to a Responder. It send many packets but Packets received stayd at 0 and Send/Receive Failures stayed at 0. I stopped it after a while. The second test was Responder-Echo packets from Sender. This recorded 5 Send/Receive Failures at which time I stopped it.

I check the status of the network connection and to my surprise it says I have been connected for 6 minutes....hmmm...I try the internet...the connection starts sending packets but the received number does not keep up. For example, it was 29 packets sent and only 5 recieved. I assume they should be equal? The web page did not load. The speed is 100 Mbps.

 

[AtYourService]

might be broken/corrupt winsock entries