I formatted my hard drive on my desktop and restored it to it's oringinal state, before i did so everything worked well including my internet but after I formatted and got through the intial section of XP to get the updates ect. my connection to the web does not open a web page. I get the 'web page cannot be displayed diagnose your connection problems'. I have the connected icon and it shows i'm connected to my router, by the way the router works properly because both my laptop and my wie's desktop connect from this router with excellent signal strength. My router is connected directly into this desktop and I changed nothing or removed any connections prior to the formatting. I've gone into the device manager and the network adapter shows nothing is wrong there. I have found that no IP address present and nothing i've tried has worked to get one assigned. I've called my provider and gone through their service manager with no results. Again it does show the connected icon by i'm unable to get an actual connection to surf ....is there any help?
