Woohoo! - I got it working again. This makes no sense whatever to me but I'll post it and see if it makes any sense to you guys....
My PC actually has 3 x primary partitions, allowing me to boot into Windows XP, 2000 or 98 respectively. After removing the Belkin software (which was installed on all three) none of these OS's could communicate with my laptop (at least, not using the 10/100 Base-T Ethernet) as I described.
By a stroke of luck, I'd had the foresight to back-up my Win2k partition immediately before removing the Belkin stuff. This morning (after days of frustration) I bit the bullet and restored the old Win2k partition to see what would happen. Guess what? All THREE OS's now have their TCP/IP working again and I can ping away merrily and even communicate via my Ethernet cable LAN again. The strange thing is that I didn't do anything to the other 2 partitions - only the Win2k one. So why have the others mysteriously sprung into life?
I don't understand it but I'm glad it happened !!
Cheers,
John
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