Limited or no connectivity

[Roco]

Installed SP2 and now have the following message in my
Local Area Network "limited or no connectivity.

Anyone have a solution!!!!!

Thanks

 

[XPUSER]

Installed SP2 and now have the following message in my
Local Area Network "limited or no connectivity.

Anyone have a solution!!!!!

Thanks

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From this web site:

Windows XP Service Pack 2 problems
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSP2.htm#Networking_problems_after_installing_Service_Pack_2

Limited or no connectivity warning
If you see a "limited or no connectivity" warning and a yellow exclamation mark in Device Manager, this only means that the computer's network port is set to automatically obtain an IP address through DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), but a DHCP server could not be found. Windows then generates an APIPA address in the 169.254.x.y range (see chapter APIPA Addresses in Private IP Addresses). This means that all computers in the LAN (Local Area Network) can communicate with each other, if the others also gave themselves APIPA addresses, but you cannot have any Internet connectivity that way.

It does not necessarily mean that there is anything wrong, but if you don't want to see this message any more, right-click on the LAN connection, select Properties, and remove the check mark for "Notify me when this connection has limited or no connectivity".

If you swapped your network adapter and have a DHCP server in some other device like a cable modem or router that worked before you installed Service Pack 2, switch its power of, wait 5 seconds, then switch it on again. Then reboot your computer. The background is that some cable modems or similar devices recognize the connected adapters (or their MAC addresses) only once when powering up

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[Roco]

Thanks

At least the annoying explamation is no longer there
also, no icon at all.

Roco

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From this web site:

Windows XP Service Pack 2 problems
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSP2.htm#Networking_problems_af ter_installing_Service_Pack_2

Limited or no connectivity warning
If you see a "limited or no connectivity" warning and a

yellow exclamation mark in Device Manager, this only
means that the computer's network port is set to
automatically obtain an IP address through DHCP (Dynamic
Host Configuration Protocol), but a DHCP server could not
be found. Windows then generates an APIPA address in the
169.254.x.y range (see chapter APIPA Addresses in Private
IP Addresses). This means that all computers in the LAN
(Local Area Network) can communicate with each other, if
the others also gave themselves APIPA addresses, but you
cannot have any Internet connectivity that way.

It does not necessarily mean that there is anything

wrong, but if you don't want to see this message any
more, right-click on the LAN connection, select
Properties, and remove the check mark for "Notify me when
this connection has limited or no connectivity".

If you swapped your network adapter and have a DHCP

server in some other device like a cable modem or router
that worked before you installed Service Pack 2, switch
its power of, wait 5 seconds, then switch it on again.
Then reboot your computer. The background is that some
cable modems or similar devices recognize the connected
adapters (or their MAC addresses) only once when powering
up

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