This happened to my mom's laptop back in January. I tried doing a virus scan, no dice. Did the error checking thing in xp, nope. Whenever I would ping to an ip or domain, I would get the following With my pc however, I would get I was asking questions at the tweakxp forums, and the person helping me suggested WinSock XP fix and that finally fixed the problem. So yeah, I owe one to WinSock XP Fix too. IMO, you're lucky you were even able to connect anywhere because that laptop wouldn't go anywhere.