Home Network No Longer Working

[Guest]

After building a new XP system I had a disk failure. In a desparate bid not to lose all my install work, I bought Copy Commander and a new disk. I was surprised that everything seemed to be up and running on the new disk even after some failures reported by copy commander. The only thing that seems to be causing a problem is the network:

I can't seem to get all of the network (internal and external to cable modem) talking to each-other now. I can manually set IP to get out on the new computer, but haven't been able to talk to the other computers over the HomeFree phone network since the crash. (ICS broken?) When I try to repair a connection the following error appears: "The following steps of the repair operation failed: Purging and reloading the remote cache name table of NetBT. Sending Name Release packets to WINS and then starting Refresh. Refreshing all DHCP leases and re-registering DNS names. Please contact your network administraator or ISP." The network setup wizard gives an error and when I try to enable ICS, I get the following error: "An error occured while Internet Connection Sharing was being enabled. The system cannot find the file specified."

Would appreciate any help.
Thanks!

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

After building a new XP system I had a disk failure. In a desparate bid not to lose all my install work, I bought Copy Commander and a new disk. I was surprised that everything seemed to be up and running on the new disk even after some failures reported by copy commander. The only thing that seems to be causing a problem is the network:

I can't seem to get all of the network (internal and external to cable modem) talking to each-other now. I can manually set IP to get out on the new computer, but haven't been able to talk to the other computers over the HomeFree phone network since the crash. (ICS broken?) When I try to repair a connection the following error appears: "The following steps of the repair operation failed: Purging and reloading the remote cache name table of NetBT. Sending Name Release packets to WINS and then starting Refresh. Refreshing all DHCP leases and re-registering DNS names. Please contact your network administraator or ISP." The network setup wizard gives an error and when I try to enable ICS, I get the following error: "An error occured while Internet Connection Sharing was being enabled. The system cannot find the file specified."

Fritz,

I think a repair installation is in order now. Assuming there
are indeed files missing, a repair installation would reinstate
these while keeping your installed software and settings.

To do it, you can boot from the install CD (must be a full
version, not an OEM version), first select installation (not
repair), then select repair installation.

Of course there is always a residual risk, so you either carry
that or do a backup first.

For network problem details, please have a look at
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxNetwork.htm.

Hans-Georg

 

[Guest]

So what if it is an oem version? How do I repair files with? Isn't there some common placing of files and drivers that might be missing? It sounds like taking a sledge hammer to a nat to replace a few files.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

So what if it is an oem version? How do I repair files with? Isn't there some common placing of files and drivers that might be missing? It sounds like taking a sledge hammer to a nat to replace a few files.

Fritz,

I don't know the OEM versions. The seller can give you a
severely restricted version. If you buy that, you have to live
with the restrictions or buy the full version on top.

Some OEM disks allow you to reinstall Windows, but only after
formatting the hard disk.

Hans-Georg

 

[Guest]

I think the OEM CD should load if it comes to that. It has SP1 and all the tools, etc. included. This is a 3.2GHz w 1 GB of DDR with Asus motherboard.

However, I think my problem may be related to hardware/software conflicts. It mysteriously started working, sorta ..... I received an error message "InCD caused an error and will be shut down, blah, blah". For some reason I decided to click on the the connection icon and do repair connection. It did not give me an error mesage this time! So, I decided to go ahead and try to set up the network. Lo and behold it finished without an error. However, it seemed to say this was the 6th occurance of the software bridge. And furthermore, the the Network bridge icon and the HomeFree network card icon kept alternatly flashing "cable disconnected" back to "network bridge established" or something to that affect. While this was happening, the two other computer is the house now could connect back to the internet through the HomeFree card. (My main connection to the internet is through ethernet on motherboard, which has always worked, even when I had to manually make the IP settings.) Also, I have a D-Link router between my computer and the cable modem.

Now the bad new. This flashes the connection on and off about 2 dozen or so times, and then my computer freezes up. It is almost as if it keeps remaking connection after connection until it runs out of resources.

Any further ideas? (By the way, manually shutting down InCD in the process list as soon as computer starts does not keep the icons from flashing and the system from ultimately hanging.) Now that I think of it, this "hanging" started before the disk died, but I laid it on the failing disk because it started making noise about the same time I was ready to hook system together as network. It did seem that the computer would hang when I connected the HomeFree network and then booted my old computer so the two could start talking.

 

[Guest]

One more little item associated with the device manager: It shows 2 pentium 4 processors. I know for a fact I only have one since I bought it and put it all together! Also, I am pretty sure it came up this way from the start, before I did the disk copy from the dying disk. Does this mean windows is really trying to use two cpus? As you can guess, I am completely new at WinXP.

P
Guess I should post as Fritz R as I see other "Fritz" posting in this forum predating mine.

 

[Guest]

It's working!!!! I deleted bridging connection and internet shareing connection. I disabled QoS packet Scheduler on HomeFree after realizing this is something new that wasn't around when HomeFree was invented. I also disable NetBeui on ethernet card (nothing to talk to with this protocol) and kept NetBeui on HomeFree on this computer and all others. In addition, I went back to letting the system decide the IP addresses. Now everyone can connect to this PC through HomeFree and also share internet connection.

I suspect the key here was disabling QoS on the legacy card. People might keep this in mind if this problem pops up again.

Happy again in computer land! And believe me, the family is REALLY happy to be back up!

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

It's working!!!! I deleted bridging connection and internet shareing connection. I disabled QoS packet Scheduler on HomeFree after realizing this is something new that wasn't around when HomeFree was invented. I also disable NetBeui on ethernet card (nothing to talk to with this protocol) and kept NetBeui on HomeFree on this computer and all others. In addition, I went back to letting the system decide the IP addresses. Now everyone can connect to this PC through HomeFree and also share internet connection.

I suspect the key here was disabling QoS on the legacy card. People might keep this in mind if this problem pops up again.

Happy again in computer land! And believe me, the family is REALLY happy to be back up!

Fritz,

glad you found it. I had no good idea about the cause.

Hans-Georg