Service packs - no other software.

Let me ask it another way - what could have occurred that would allow me to ping a web address but not to browse to it? Security settings in IE look normal - but I'll try installing Opera or something to make sure.

Router configuration is not blocking anything FROM that workstation, but I updated the firmware anyway.

>What new software has been added? Any update patches applied lately? What about virus checking... have you run a scan lately? Any catastrophic errors (blue screens or cxx's)?
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>I recently had a RAM stick go bad on me... I used this utility to test it - http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
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>>I'm baffled.
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>>My Win2K server (which I use as a web application staging server) is suddenly unable to browse the internet and many applications are not running (or running very slowly) which I THINK is a consequence of this connectivity problem. It also takes forever to boot.
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>>The odd thing is, you can connect from the internet to browse the hosted web sites and applications, and I can connect using RDP and VNC - so incoming traffic seems OK.
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>>I can't bring up 'network connections' so it's hard to diagnose - but I can't imagine what to check, anyway.
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>>Event Log has some startup services timing out because they took too long to start.
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>>Any suggestions? NIC maybe?