Kristoff2121

Hey guys, I have a cpu with DSL. I just clean formatted my C: drive and freshly installed windows. Now my DSL doesn't work. When I try to repair the network connection it says it cannot renew IP address. I remember coming across this before and it had something to do with the name given to the Computer in Device Manager. It is on the tip of my tongue but I can't remember. Anybody know????

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AMD 1800+, ECS K7S5A, RADEON 8500 64MB, 512 MB DDR, 60 GB HDD, 400 WATT PS, AUDIGY Hi folks, Above is most of the hardware in my cpu. I have had XP Pro installed for a while now. Recently and not long after I upgraded my processor I noticed while trying to watch a DVD that the animation was choppy. After studying this I noticed that about every second the movement would freeze briefly. To test whether it was my DVD Decoder I watched the Win XP Tour and it also had a very rythmic freeze in movement. I will tell you all, I have almost everyhting imaginable to isolate this problem. I have tried to contact ECS Elitegroup about thier mobo and they have absolutely no tech support. Although I did get ahold of someone from ATI, they also have no quality tech support. I have completely reformatted my HDD and did a clean install of a friends disk of Win XP (sorry, troubleshooting people). I have detached every piece of hardware not vital and this problem is still there. Everything tells me that is has to be my month old Radeon 8500, however, if I am safe mode the problem goes away! I am completely at a loss. And to make matters worse it seems that nobody has ever had this problem as I have been searching for any clues online for days. By the way, all my drivers are current and for XP. I have set my hardware acceleration to "none" and tried various different settings for the radeon in "advanced settings" and the problem still exists. I have gone into the motherboard settings and taken off the 4x for agp, I have tried different latency settings, different "graphics win" (apperature) settings and completely updated bios and SIS 730 chipset to no avail. It is driving me crazy... i just watch it go tick, tick ,tick, actually, stick, stick, stick and it is timed to an exact second (you could set your watch to it). It is present in everything that moves on the screen including screen savers, xp tour, DVD. Can anyone help me or am I cursed?