little help

[fritoman]

I have just built a new computer and am having a problem with my games connecting to the internet, when I click to enter multiplayer in rico it freezes the game, when I do the same in Halo it also freezes but then unfreezes and says "unable to find server"I have also tried steam and it says "no servers match your settings please check your filter and try again" and i dont have any filters checked, I have also tried to connect to rico with gamespy and as soon as it accesses the internet in the console it freezes. I do have a firewall but have granted access to all the games I have tried to play and did try connecting with out the firewall and it still dosent work. Is there setting that I would have to change on a brand new system to make it work?

any suggestions would be appreciated

because I am like this :wacko:right now

frito