[still_thinking]

I had to replace the motherboard in my PC at work, no problems there, the machine itself runs sweetly.

The motherboard came with onboard LAN, so I thought "yippee" throw the NIC away that I had previously. (Figure of speech by the way)

Trouble is, it says there is no cable connected. Tried this, and tried that, looked in the BIOS, made sure it was definately enabled and it was, still no luck.

I disabled the onboard LAN, and put the NIC in, and low and behold, the status comes up connected.

Now, herein lies the problem...

I can't see any of the other machines on the network (which is a workgroup called SUITE2) All machines are running XP Pro by the way.

Now it gets curly...

If I type "net view" in Command prompt on my machine, I only get my machine showing, try to ping another machine on the network, no response. If I go to any of the other machines, I type "net view", all machines show up, including mine, but if I try to ping my machine, no response.

I have exactly the same problem in "View Workgroup Computers" in "My Network Places" on my machine only mine shows, and on the other machines all inclucding mine do, but mine is unaccessible.

There is no Firewall running on my machine, all have static IP's from 192.168.1.200 (mine) to 192.168.1.210 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, all are on the same workgroup "Suite2".

Point to take, all was working ok before I had to replace the motherboard.

Any suggestions as to what I can try to solve the problem?