Networking Nightmare XP - Please Help!

[drdoug26]

Hi all:

Heres the problem:

I’ve got a simple home network that uses a netgear hub. I’ve got
Six computer hooked up, all sharing a DSL line via a Linksys
Router. Four computers are win2000 Pro, one win98, and one is
Win XP pro. All are communicating fine and happily sharing the DSL Line.

The problem is with the addition of the seventh - Win XP.
For the life of me I can not get it to join the network. I set it up
Exactly as the other win xp, but no luck. I’ve tried all the wizards
and even tried using the disk that one of the wizards has you create, and insert it in other members of the network.
Nothing works.
I even just did a fresh re-install with another WinXP disk and still no Joining of my network. I HATE XP!!!!!

Any suggestions before I rip it out and install Win 2K??

My daughter Really wants XP but I have just about given up.

Thanks for any suggestions in advance

Doug
drdoug@speakeasy.net
:mad:

[Jon]

Not completely sure about this but are the two copies of XP you're using the same one?

Seems like only one valid copy is even allowed to work on the same network. I may be wrong on this but it was my impression that Microsoft made it this way.

[drdoug26]

Hi again:



Heres some ping results that were requested:

On the seventh/problem xp computer the ipconfig information was way out of wack, when compared to the other members of my WORKGROUP. The ip was 169.254.118.69 and was labled (auto configuration Ip)? There was no gate, and the mask was (255.255.0.0).

The standard on my other network members is:
Ip: 192.168.1.100, 192.168.1.102, etc....
mask: 255.255.255.1
Gate: 192.168.1.1

I could ping between all members of the network,
even the other computer running XP pinged fine.

The seventh/xp problem child: could not ping any members of the network. It COULD ping itself.

Hardware status: Nic card on 7th/xp problem child, is green, its also SOLID green where it connects to the hub.(all others are flashing green).

Just for the heck of it I changed the setting in TCP/IP and specified the correct ip/gate/and mask. I still could not ping to any of the other network members. Still could ping itself.

I also unhooked the Cat5 cable from the 7th/problem computer and put it in my note book computer. I was immediatle able to connect to the WORKGROUP.


I give up!!! any other suggestions? I have not been able to find netbuei nor the fire wall thing?

Doug:o

[Jon]

Have you tried to manually give it that XP PC it's IP information?

[mbigna]

I'd double check all my network settings. Is your workgroup name spelled correctly? Are you using fixed IP's? If so, make sure that your IP mask is set correctly. Otherwise, make sure that you are set up for DHCP (and NAT).

[lennytiger]

Try 192.168.0.1 for the IP address of one machine and let the rest use DHCP or automatically assigned, it should work fine i do that on my network here works fine!!:cool:

[Wa11y]

Originally posted by Jon
Not completely sure about this but are the two copies of XP you're using the same one?

Seems like only one valid copy is even allowed to work on the same network. I may be wrong on this but it was my impression that Microsoft made it this way.

Nope that's not the case. All I'll say about that.

Have you tried swapping the NIC in the trouble PC? Perhaps swap it with one that works, just to make sure the card is good? And have you tried to swap ports on the hub, to make sure the hub is good?

[drdoug26]

Thanks everyone for all the help. I still can't explain what happened but heres how I did it:

After trying all suggestions nothing worked. Finally I gave up and reinstalled windows 2000K. To my horror it would not connect to my network either! So out of despiration, I jumped the CMOS after popping the battery and reset to bios defaults. When it started up it connected !!!

So I had to see if Windows XP would work. I reinstalled XP and Wham............. it conected to the network on the first shot.

Can anyone explain this? As I mentioned, my daughter contracted the "I LOVE YOU" virus. Could this have done something??? Is it possible that this 2 year old Asus CUSL2 is dying on me?

Anyway, thats again for all the help.

Doug

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