Limited or no connectivity icon when connecting to network

[Richard Ruda]

We have a simple peer to peer network running a mix of win98 and xp PC's.

On our one XP pc we occasionally, upon boot up, are not able to connect to
the rest of the network. We get that "limited or no connectivity" icon
displayed in the lower tray with an exclamation mark. Right click it and if
you attempt to repair/renew the IP address it always fails. Our only
solution has been to System Restore to the day before or when the system
last worked. This has worked so far. However, we also have a notebook and
Saturday I tried to connect it to our network (Ethernet to network hub) but
it also failed. Restoring to the previous restore point, (about 6 weeks
before as we don't use the notebook often) did not work. Dell support could
not fix it despite trying many different things (Bios tests, hardware test,
Ethernet cable replacement, deleting network hardware and so on). We were
forced to re-install Win XP. Dell claim that some 3rd party software is
conflicting with the network.

Our main Win XP pc has never had a problem and it has all the software (plus
more) that the others have..

Any one got any ideas. This is crazy.

Richard

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

How to troubleshoot network connectivity problems
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325487

How to troubleshoot TCP/IP connectivity with Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314067

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| We have a simple peer to peer network running a mix of win98 and xp PC's.
|
| On our one XP pc we occasionally, upon boot up, are not able to connect to
| the rest of the network. We get that "limited or no connectivity" icon
| displayed in the lower tray with an exclamation mark. Right click it and if
| you attempt to repair/renew the IP address it always fails. Our only
| solution has been to System Restore to the day before or when the system
| last worked. This has worked so far. However, we also have a notebook and
| Saturday I tried to connect it to our network (Ethernet to network hub) but
| it also failed. Restoring to the previous restore point, (about 6 weeks
| before as we don't use the notebook often) did not work. Dell support could
| not fix it despite trying many different things (Bios tests, hardware test,
| Ethernet cable replacement, deleting network hardware and so on). We were
| forced to re-install Win XP. Dell claim that some 3rd party software is
| conflicting with the network.
|
| Our main Win XP pc has never had a problem and it has all the software (plus
| more) that the others have..
|
| Any one got any ideas. This is crazy.
|
| Richard