God-Tier computer geeks, I needs halp

[Jand3rson]

Yes to all 4 questions.

[Jean]

What do you get when you ping loopback address?

Turn windows firewall off, any difference?

[Jand3rson]

Nope, and I just spent an hour on the phone with a friend who's been in tech support for 5 years. Nothing.

I think I'm going to cut my losses here (mainly just time), return the few parts I bought, and say hell with it. It's been 2 days fucking with this now, and it's just not worth it. I can put the money toward building a new system with all new parts that will blow whatever I do to this one out of the water. But thanks to everyone for all your help. :)

[Jean]

So pinging 127.0.0.1 works ok yes?

Since this card / pc worked fine with Vista then you can say the card/hardware is in working condition.... easy fix would be to put a usb nic and disable the on-board one.