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My friend recently tried to update his Vista machine with SP2, however, after he did this, he is no longer able to connect to the internet. I am an IT professional, so he asked me to look at it for him. Neither his wireless connection, nor a direct connection to the NIC got him on the internet. I went into the Device Manager, and all of his network components were installed and working properly, yet when I tried to ping his loopback address, I was receiving a "General failure" message. When he plugs into the NIC, the light greens up and everything seems to be connected, but his system is not pulling a usable address from DHCP. We even contacted the ISP, who sent a technician out, and even he couldn't fix the problem. I've found a couple of options I'm going to try, such as rebooting in safe mode and seeing if I can at least hit the loopback address that way, but I'm running out of ideas. Anyone have any fresh ones?
I checked all of his Network Settings and ensured DHCP was turned on and everything looks normal. I'm not sure where to go from here.
A failure to ping the loopback address indicates that the TCP stack is corrupt. Have a look at:
Reinstall and Reset TCP/IP (Internet Protocol) in Windows Vista, 2003 and XP
for a possible solution. You'll need to check and possibly reset the network & TCP settings afterwards.
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I agree with Rambler. I keep this link on a flash drive for just such a thing
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811259"Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep."
Theodore Roosevelt New York City, February 17, 1899
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i have a acer aspire m1201 model and the fan speed seems to be running unstable . like when i click my browser or any window it instantly revs up really high
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i tried a software called speedFan but it dont seem to work ,or rather i just dont know how to use the un user friendly thing.it just seems to me that it needs to rev up when i open more windows and programs ?
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i am currently using xp pro sp1 . is there any way i can manually lower my fan speed or something :(
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i have been studying computers for about 2 years now and already know more then most casuals out there but this problom is pissin me offff!!!!
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Two years? Wow! Post this in the appropriate forum, with a suitable title - you won't get a sensible answer (or any answer) hanging it on another thread.
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Hi, try to reset your ip configuration including your winsock
heres how to:
start > run > cmd > netsh int ip reset reset.log [ENTER]
then also this one : netsh winsock reset catalog [ENTER]restart your pc and try your browser.
regards,
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