..it was the Nvidia video driver. Rolled back to 169 from 175 and all is well. Who knew..
Not a wasted effort, though. I learned lots, especially about this board. Thank you to all who helped!
I give up.. I even uninstalled Bitdefender, thinking there may be something there that's blocking, but still no luck.
I can ping and telnet fine, it just won't take any f***ing RDC connections!!
Thanks to all for giving sound advice. This is a great board, the attitude and aptitude is...
I stopped & disabled the Nvidia service, but still couldn't connect from another machine at home. Windows firewall is definitely off.
Haven't tried the ping or crossover, but I will later tonight when I'm home.
Got a linksys linux router running DD-WRT and a gigabit switch. The kicker is, I can't even RDC to this box from another inside my network, even when I remove the switch!
I downloaded the ethernet driver from ASUS & will downgrade. Also will check for Nvidia service, but I'm running the...
Format plus clean install of XP Pro SP2 then the SP3 update. I took the latest Windows driver for my card, as well as rolled it back to see if the older one would work. No go.
RDC stopped working all of a sudden! It worked fine up until 2 weeks ago. I can't even connect INSIDE my network, forget about from externally, which I have been doing for months... I have:
1) checked and rechecked port forwarding;
2) telnet ok to host;
3) checked all firewalls & turned off...
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