my network probs!!! can anyone plz help me!!!!.... as u mite know fm the other posts i cant get my xp machine workin on the lil network we have @ mine... it is my machines fault (all the cables/router works) anyone with any ideas/clues muchos appreciated!!... u can have have a remote connection thingee with my machine... i need it fixing b'cos heathers knickin' her machine back on monday and i dont think i cud cope without the net!! cheers!
Erm all nic card drivers all installed? Sure there designed for xp? All cables in? (sounds patronising but the amount of times ive done it) Internet connection sharing working? PC's ip set to the internal ip range?
can u manually assign it an IP address, just to see if it works? I think Juski was on the right lines, the network components sounds fucked. Can u go into the Add/Remove Programs bit, into the Windows Setup and completely remove the network from there?
you say xp installed them automatically? (nic drivers) cant you not install them manually from the cd? or net? Just xp drivers arent always the best, my modem was picked up by xp and the drivers for it were crap. and yep justin is right, make sure tcp/ip, netbeui(spellin) and network services is installed from the add/remove bit
i have a network prob too, no biggy i jus wondered if any1 knew why it was... my bro has broadband and he set up a router so i could use the net an his comp didn't have to be on, but its always going down, an it does it alot more when i have that shareaza thing on? an ideas?
you running XP? only reason i ask, my boss at work had BT Broadband installed, it did the same thing, it would just hang the broadband connection when he was on Kazaar or WinMX, rebooting it would sort it temporarily. He didn't have a router like. He tried all sorts of stuff to get it working - eventually i rebuilt his machine as a clean XP box, installed broadband - and it worked a treat! a weird fix, if a bit extreme.
Kid - Just had a though, you might have to put the routers IP address in as a gateway in your TCP/IP properties window, so it knows where to look to get to the ISPs DHCP server. Hav u tried pinging the other machines on the network? have u tried pinging the router?
nah, i jus deleted shareaza an its working better... an all i do is laugh at my bro when it goes down, cos my mate said it was a really hard thing to set up, but my bro was adament that he could do it! an i'm only home for another month so i'm jus gonna see how it goes now... gutted that i cant download stuff tho:evil: :evil: but he paid for it so i cant complain too much!
i was jus wondering if there was a simple answer to it so i could make my bro look dumb - always a fun game!
For modern networks the best system to have is Windows Server 2003 on the main box and windows 2k on the rest
