[geeks] Urk! Win 2K question...

[Geoff Reed]

I've fixed a problem like this before by

  A: Install MS Loopback adaptor driver (dummy net card driver essentially)
  B: Remove TCP/IP
  C: remove network adaptor driver
  D: reboot
  E: reinstall NIC driver
  F: Reinstall TCP/IP

  Odds are it's a damaged registry entry for TCP/IP or the NIC driver and 
the above will cure the problem.

  Oh, as always do the above logged into the local machine as administrator...

At 10:19 AM 2/11/02 -0800, you wrote:
><shakes head sadly>
>I can't believe I'm asking this, but here goes...
>
>An executive in my chain has a win2K laptop that is behaving oddly (and
>we've seen this on other win2k boxes) - it cannot get a DHCP address
>correctly after time has passed.  The NT server says "yes, it has this
>address", but the laptop (and other desktops from time to time) comes up
>with 0.0.0.0.  Weincreased the number of addresses available, so there is
>not a pool problem (Besides, the server thinks everything is *fine*).
>
>If we *manually* assign an address, reboot, then select DHCP and reboot
>again, everything works like a charm.
>
>I ^(^&()!! hate windowz...
>
>-Pete
>
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>Peter L. Wargo
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