wireless router/cabled router issues

[andrew726]

I'm posting as Andrew simply because he may not be able to totally describe my issue. I recently bought a wireless G router (D-Link DI-524), and no matter what I try, I can't get it to work. I've followed all the directions, but nothing works. Before that, I had been able to access the internet via our cabled router, but now, after playing with the wireless stuff, the internet won't work regardless. It acknowledges that the cable is connected, and it says that the connection is "enabled" . . . but I can't connect to anything.

Any advice?

[Áedán]

What kind of internet connection do you have?

[andrew726]

Cable, ISP is cogeco. always connected

[Pitch]

Are you able to access the router from your PC? Can you ping it?

[andrew726]

we have 3 computers at the house, 2 of them are connected to the internet fine, but i cant get them to connect to eachother, (show up in network neighborhood)

xp home on 1 of them and xp pro on 2 of them. xp pro is on the new computer we are trying to get to connect to the internet and i would also like to get them all netwoked to transfer files and stuff etc.

and what is the error mesage when booting, "NTLDR is missing" ???

[Áedán]

"NTLDR is missing" means that whatever you tried to boot off didn't have all the files needed to boot NT. Typically happens if you have a floppy disk in the drive and the machine tried to boot from that instead of the hard disk.

Some cable ISPs do odd things, such as requiring you to register MAC addresses (the address of a network card) or run slightly different protocols on your computer.

[andrew726]

there is no floppy drive in the computer.. we've tried formatting the drive 2 times .. we have oly isntalled the mobo drivers for the Epox 9npa+ ultra and the ethernet drivers.