in windows 7 whenever i press the shut down, or restart button, it didnt shut down cleanly. something must have happend during the shut down period ( it show 1 seconds of a purple background and a whole lot of writing and texts showing before the computer completely shut down. heres the error from log viewer: Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Dhcpv6-Client/Admin Source: Microsoft-Windows-DHCPv6-Client Date: 2/6/2009 10:12:11 PM Event ID: 1001 Task Category: Address Configuration State Event Level: Error Keywords: User: LOCAL SERVICE Computer: computer Description: Your computer was not assigned an address from the network (by the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address 0x000D72BB4B3A. The following error occurred: 0x79. Your computer will continue to try and obtain an address on its own from the network address (DHCP) server. Event Xml: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> <System> <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-DHCPv6-Client" Guid="{6A1F2B00-6A90-4C38-95A5-5CAB3B056778}" /> <EventID>1001</EventID> <Version>0</Version> <Level>2</Level> <Task>3</Task> <Opcode>74</Opcode> <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-02-07T06:12:11.582031200Z" /> <EventRecordID>43</EventRecordID> <Correlation /> <Execution ProcessID="832" ThreadID="1712" /> <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Dhcpv6-Client/Admin</Channel> <Computer>DANLAM</Computer> <Security UserID="S-1-5-19" /> </System> <EventData> <Data Name="HWLength">6</Data> <Data Name="HWAddress">000D72BB4B3A</Data> <Data Name="StatusCode">121</Data> </EventData> </Event>

Are there any exclamation points next to any devices in Device Manager ? It looks like your problem may be related to a network card.

Can you browse the internet when you are at the PC ? If the network card drivers were installed by Windows 7 during Win 7 installation, you can try the Vista drivers for your network card. Regards SuatCINI

Are you behind a Router? I don't know enough about Internet Protocols to be sure about this but I suspect your issue has something to do with IPv6 & IPv4. I THINK IPv4 is still in wide use and your logs indicate your network adaapter is trying to establish a IPv6 connection. IPv6 will eventually replace IPv4 because IPv4 is soon to run out of possible addresses. I may be totally off with this reasoning. Drivers are most likely the cause. Hardware manufacturers are expected to provide tested and approved Windows 7 drivers for their hardware. If they don't the hardware may not work or MSoft may provide a generic driver which may provide partial use. Because Widnows 7 in still in Beta I am guesing this driver process is still in flux.

As stated in #3, since Windows 7 is in Beta, you may have to try different options to get certain drivers to work. I had trouble getting drivers for the onboard LAN to work with an EVGA motherboard. I installed a PCI NIC and finally got the XP drivers to work, not the Vista drivers.