Hello everyone. I'm having some problems with my windows network. I have more than 8+ computers networked together, with all of them using a DSL router to connect to the Internet.
My problem is on my main machine. I'm not sure how it happened, but I was rebooting my machine after it locked up, when it restarted I noticed that it bypassed the login screen and went right to the desktop. I found this a bit odd and checked neighborhood network; no computers there and I could not access the Internet from IE. I rebooted a few more times and still the same thing. So I uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled them with the same results. I noticed that after I reinstalled the drivers that the TCP/IP protocol in the network properties screen it only displayed TCP/IP and not what it normally displays: TCP/IP -> 3COM NIC
I tried installing netbeui and I could get the login screen but only connect to Windows 95 and NT computers. I could also not connect to my router since that uses TCP/IP. I figured out that the problem lies with the TCP/IP protocol. I tried to swap NIC cards with another one of my computers, same results on my main machine and on the other one my card works perfectly. I tried several brand new cards with the same results.
Does anyone have a solution to this problem? I have tried everything possible. I even tried restoring the registry a few days back with no success.
If you have gotten this far thank you for reading this.
-Norman
My problem is on my main machine. I'm not sure how it happened, but I was rebooting my machine after it locked up, when it restarted I noticed that it bypassed the login screen and went right to the desktop. I found this a bit odd and checked neighborhood network; no computers there and I could not access the Internet from IE. I rebooted a few more times and still the same thing. So I uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled them with the same results. I noticed that after I reinstalled the drivers that the TCP/IP protocol in the network properties screen it only displayed TCP/IP and not what it normally displays: TCP/IP -> 3COM NIC
I tried installing netbeui and I could get the login screen but only connect to Windows 95 and NT computers. I could also not connect to my router since that uses TCP/IP. I figured out that the problem lies with the TCP/IP protocol. I tried to swap NIC cards with another one of my computers, same results on my main machine and on the other one my card works perfectly. I tried several brand new cards with the same results.
Does anyone have a solution to this problem? I have tried everything possible. I even tried restoring the registry a few days back with no success.
If you have gotten this far thank you for reading this.
-Norman
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