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That loud cry you just heard? That was me.

The new computer arrived. It's shiny and pretty. And it doesn't work. Well, not quite. Here's what happened.

Unpacked computer, turned it on, installed my router, was online. Everything was perfect.

Bittorrent wouldn't work, so I deinstalled service pack 2.

Was not online anymore.

Reinstalled Service pack 2: am still not online.

I get the error "Network error". Emule tells me that something is called a UDP socket that is not a socket.

I did the "ping" test, and arrived at my router fine. I am however unable to reach my router via my browser, again, network error "server cannot be found".

My router works fine, my connection works fine I am currently online at home with my laptop.

I called about every service hotline in the existence of mankind. No one was able to help me. The only thing that I have been told is that I should completely reinstall Windows XP, meaning that I would lose everything, including 1,5 years of windows updates. There is no personal data on the computer yet, so that wouldn't be the problem.

What should I do? Completely reinstall? Is there any way that completely reinstalling would make things worse?

Help? Anyone? Do you know anyone who could help me? I am so desperate here, so desperate.

I think I'm going to sit down in a corner and cry a little. Or a lot.