Have you installed a pop-up blocker type software? Or anything like that? They will sometimes just stop everything. What about allowing activex controls enable or prompt in IE)? How about java... is the site using that?



>Service packs - no other software.
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>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.
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>Router configuration is not blocking anything FROM that workstation, but I updated the firmware anyway.
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>>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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>>-w-
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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?