Win2000 desktop is not allowing me to login in domain as well as local computer

[tbone]

Hi guys,

I have win2000+sp4 machine at my work working fine till yesterday
morning. When I rebooted it took long time on "preparing network
connections" and came to logon screen but doesnt let me log in. When I
check the NIC (it is dell precision, so the NIC is in-built, not a
card) it was showing me orange light instead of green signal. So I
connected external Network card but same results. I went to bios and
disable the NIC(so that i can recognize my new card) but still same
results.

Since I could not log on even to my local computer I cannot retrieve
any of the information in my disk, which is very important at my work.
Can someone help me out in this situation. Please let me know if you
need more information in this regard.

Thanks a lot for your help.

 

[John Wunderlich]

Hi guys,

I have win2000+sp4 machine at my work working fine till yesterday
morning. When I rebooted it took long time on "preparing network
connections" and came to logon screen but doesnt let me log in.
When I check the NIC (it is dell precision, so the NIC is
in-built, not a card) it was showing me orange light instead of
green signal. So I connected external Network card but same
results. I went to bios and disable the NIC(so that i can
recognize my new card) but still same results.

Since I could not log on even to my local computer I cannot
retrieve any of the information in my disk, which is very
important at my work. Can someone help me out in this situation.
Please let me know if you need more information in this regard.

A quick approach would be to boot from an OS on a CD and use the
network connection or USB port to access and download your files to
another computer or disk. Two good, free, bootable CDs are:

"Ultimate Boot CD for Windows"
<http://www.ubcd4win.com/>
"Knoppix" (Live Linux CD)
<http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html>

You may find that the Knoppix disk has better USB support, assuming you
really do have a hardware network problem.

Once you get your files backuped, you can start to look at what's
causing your problem.

HTH,
John

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi guys,

I have win2000+sp4 machine at my work working fine till yesterday
morning. When I rebooted it took long time on "preparing network
connections" and came to logon screen but doesnt let me log in. When I
check the NIC (it is dell precision, so the NIC is in-built, not a
card) it was showing me orange light instead of green signal. So I
connected external Network card but same results. I went to bios and
disable the NIC(so that i can recognize my new card) but still same
results.

Since I could not log on even to my local computer I cannot retrieve
any of the information in my disk, which is very important at my work.
Can someone help me out in this situation. Please let me know if you
need more information in this regard.

Thanks a lot for your help.

What exactly do you mean with "Does not let me log in"? Does the
machine hang before the login prompt? Does it reject your password?

Your data is probably safe and retrievable but you need to think
about your backup philosophy. If the files contain important data,
why are they stored in the one place only? A 2.5" hard disk in an
external USB case is a low cost but highly effective backup medium,
ideal for backing up your files once every few days.

 

[tbone]

Thanks guys. I actually can retrieve the data, but I am really curious
how to fix my machine. It boots up pretty good and goes to log in
screen, but doesnot let me log in at all. I use domain for login whose
uname and pwd are getting rejected. But curious thing is when I try
with local computer (instead of domain) it still doesnt let me login.
I think the DNS server values in tcp/ip config got screwed up. Is
there any way I can fix this? I have ultimate boot CD and I also
installed parallel win2000 (whose networking and domain thing works
fine with appropriate DNS server values, btw)? Is there anyway I can
fix the tcp/ip properties of Old OS with the use of this parallel OS
and then reboot the machine with old OS to make it work as it was?

I hope I explained things without confusing too much.

Thanks a lot for your help.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

 

[tbone]

It still doesnt work. Do you know where and how w2k stores tcp/ip
properties, so that I can change the DNS server values accordingly?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Perhaps here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interf
aces

 

[tbone]

Thank you. Thats was good. But I still dont know how to change those
values when I am unable to login and have access to regedit.
Do you have any idea in this regard?

Thanks again.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

The usual method is to open the registry of the problem PC
from within regedit.exe that is invoked on a networked PC.


Thank you. Thats was good. But I still dont know how to change those
values when I am unable to login and have access to regedit.
Do you have any idea in this regard?

Thanks again.