Comments on: Repair TCP/IP Stack in Windows Vista

By: Robert Owen

Robert Owen — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:10:14 +0000

Not a problem.

By: Smay

Smay — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:43:20 +0000

Ordered it. Thank you so much for your continued support. You’ve been great!!!

By: Robert Owen

Robert Owen — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:02:49 +0000

Wow.. So, it sounds like the NIC card took a surge. Interesting. Well, I’m glad it’s working. I would keep the new NIC handy should it go south completely. If you’ve got power issues, I would recommend a good Battery Backup first. I use APC back-ups and have had good results. The size of battery will depend on how many computers you are actually wanting to keep going. But at the minimum, I would get an APC 750: http://www.amazon.com/APC-BE750G-10-Outlet-Power-Saving-Uninterruptible/dp/B000Z80ICM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1264081975&sr=8-2 This would be good for 1 computer and monitor…

By: Smay

Smay — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:27:10 +0000

You are so not going to believe this…. I still haven’t received my USB ethernet adaptor, BUT….
I was running a print job on one printer, started one on another, and turned on my heat press, causing me to trip the breaker in my office. I turn everything back on. Restart my Vista machine and boot normally (took my chances w/o safe mode) and LO AND BEHOLD, it prompted me to pick a network (I had managed to create another one through all this mess to no avail) and I can see all my other machines AND I HAVE INTERNET…. Any explanations?

Incidentally, my power does go out from time to time. Can you recommend a good surge protector, maybe one with a battery backup?

By: Robert Owen

Robert Owen — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:31:43 +0000

I would definitely try an above board NIC before I did a wipe and reinstall. you can get a NIC between $10 and $20… That is a whole lot better than doing a OS wipe and reinstall and finding out it still doesn’t work. Just be sure to disable the on-board NIC after you install the new one. Good luck!

By: Smay

Smay — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:09:11 +0000

Oh, help, help, help…
OMG! So after 2 hours on the phone with Dell, doing roughly the same thing we did here (see http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-GB/vistanetworking/thread/b0888a9e-11c5-4ded-bcfd-eab7b5078d7b) minus any addressing of the IPv4 & IPv6, they want me to reinstall the operating system… It took me 2.5 days to move all my stuff from my old computer to this new one. My entire business is on this PC?! Doesn’t that seem extreme for not being able to connect to the internet???? There has to be another solution. He said if it doesn’t work after I backup and reinstall, that they’ll have to pluck out the motherboard.
For real? I’m going to try an external NIC card first – I think – before i do all that… What do you think!

By: Smay

Smay — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:49:52 +0000

Here’s something odd. I went into properties on my Local Area Connection, disabled IPv6 and re-entered my own IP/DNS entries. From there I was prompted to setup “Network 2″. It defaults to this now & when I ipconfig, I get 192.168.1.103, 255.255.255.0, and 192.168.1.1 respectively. My request times out when I ping 192.168.1.1, though on the 2nd & 4th ping I get a reply from 192.158.1.103 (the desktop) that the destination host is unreachable. I still have Local access only with no internet so it really didn’t make a difference.

On restart, it retains my manual entries now and the “private” network, but I can’t see my other computers or the internet.

In the meantime, here’s the ipconfig from yesterday, before I went in and disabled IPv6 and the rest of the above stuff – which didn’t do anything but change the IP/DNS entries and disable DHCP:

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Desktop_PC
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-24-E8-2E-F8-0B
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::2042:5e15:1b17:f740%14(Preferred)
Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address. . : 169.254.247.64(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 301999336
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-11-E7-66-1D-00-24-E8-2E-F8-0B

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1
fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1
fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Ethernet adapter Bluetooth Network Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network)
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1E-4C-E6-3B-5C
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 6:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : isatap.{5B680CC4-9A63-4F62-973A-09897CABC
F74}
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 7:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-00-54-55-4E-01
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 13:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : isatap.{3D7B80A9-A9D7-4AA7-9C97-A840E55A5
E11}
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

By: Smay

Smay — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:21:34 +0000

Did it in IPv4 only. Also just got back from the reboot after uninstall. It automatically reinstalled the software and says my “NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller” is ready to use… and yet I still have a local, limited, unidentified network without internet. I was almost hoping I could just go to Wal-Mart and get a new NIC… I need a break. I haven’t gotten anywhere since I started this last night, including in bed yet. I’ll mull it over some more and haunt the Microsoft site a bit more later. I REALLY appreciate you taking the time this morning. THANKS!

By: Smay

Smay — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:07:26 +0000

So how ’bout this… I put in all the manual DNS/gateway entries (192.168.1.103 – laptop was on 101 & 102, 255.255.255.0, and the 2 DNS entries it had listed). When I ipconfig it still shows an auto configuration for IPv4 at 169.254.159.231 and a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 and no gateway. I did a release and a renew. Same thing. I check the device manager & it still has my manual entries. Incidentally, I had made the change AGAIN to “private” vs. “public” for my unidentified, local, limited network. Nothing. So I restart. I’m “public” with the same autoconfiguration numbers and in the device manager my IPv4 is again set on Obtain Automatically versus the manual entries I had saved. I’m beginning to think my computer has a mind of its own. I’m obviously not in charge!

By: Robert Owen

Robert Owen — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:05:36 +0000

Oh.. forgot just use the TCP/IP v4 in the setup.