XP - very annoying nag screen "No connection available"... help!

[jackies]

Basically, I built this rather large computer a while ago - check the sig - but I can't use it because of a weird issue. I keep getting this extremely annoying nag screen:
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg124/j4ckies/noconn.png
:shakes:
It comes up every hour or so...
Needless to say, I don't plan to connect this box to internet. It does it on clean install of sp2 or sp3, so it's not troyans or such, I also tried disabling various services like windoz time and updates and the whole security center. I even tried uninstalling IE... Also I can't install sp1 because latest intel inf drivers and nvidia drivers seem to need sp2..
I'm getting really frustrated.. What could it be?
:shrug:
:wth:
:bsod:

[Soulburner]

How often does it come up? Shouldn't be that big of a deal...

[jackies]

It comes up every hour or so...


Well not a big deal, compared to bsod or something.
Still annoying like, if I play a game and it folds.
Or I'm doing something and it pops up in the middle...
Not my idea of classy computing... :mad:

[Soulburner]

Will it take you out of 3D? I'm trying to think of what could cause this, it should only appear when an application attemps to connect to the internet.

Is Automatic update disabled?

[jackies]

Yeah it does take me out of 3d... OUT OF FALLOUT3!!!
Yes I disabled updates and such and totally disabled the security center service.
I need some sort of tcp/ip logger maybe , to find out who wants the internet...

[rge]

My wife had same message a while back...cant remember how got rid of it, but she had active connection. If you are saying you dont plan or want to connect to the internet...disable all lan's in bios, which will prevent messages in some cases . If it is some program trying to dial out, control panel>>security center>>windows firewall and look at exceptions, it will usually give a list of programs dialing out. You can also play around in internet properties>>programs ie which programs automatically use internet and in connections. As last resort download a program that has application filtering as free trial and find and delete whatever is trying to update/connect. Also look at adobe, etc if have that on, can delete the entire adobe update folder.