Lost Internet connection

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There are several posts dealing with WIN XP machines who
have lost internet connections, associated with corrupted
winsock registry.

I have a similar problem, but the KB 811259 article did
not solve it. I abruptly lost my internet connection on
one of two computers on my home network, but the other is
just fine. I can sync my Pocket PC, but there is no
evident connection to the Netgear Hub, which is working
fine for the other computer.
I stopped and restarted all my network components, to no
avail. Norton says the machine is virus free. I used
system restore to turn back to a time when the connection
was fine, but the restore, though successful, did not
help.

When I ran MSINFO32, I found that I had only two of the
ten items (I had "MSAFD Tcpip[TCP/IP]" and "MSAFD Tcpip
[UDP/IP]" but nothing else) Even after deleting the
registry keys and installingTCP/IP, I still have only two
items listed at System Information>
components/Network/Protocol

I used the netdiag tool from support tools and it
returned that winsock test passed.

Swapping cables between the working and non-working
computers does not help.

Finally, I also ooked through KBA 314067, but only
confirmed that I cannot get an IP address from my router,
That is, my NIC passes, but the machine cannot locate my
mail server, and the IP address is 169.254.191.109
instead of the desired 198.168.0.x.

Ideas?

Chuck

 

[cfoster]

as it turns out, the problem was a bad driver for the
network card. The original driver failed and the updated
driver I used to fix it was also corrupted. I finally
found a good driver and problem went away.

-----Original Message-----
There are several posts dealing with WIN XP machines who
have lost internet connections, associated with corrupted
winsock registry.

I have a similar problem, but the KB 811259 article did
not solve it. I abruptly lost my internet connection on
one of two computers on my home network, but the other is
just fine. I can sync my Pocket PC, but there is no
evident connection to the Netgear Hub, which is working
fine for the other computer.
I stopped and restarted all my network components, to no
avail. Norton says the machine is virus free. I used
system restore to turn back to a time when the connection
was fine, but the restore, though successful, did not
help.

When I ran MSINFO32, I found that I had only two of the
ten items (I had "MSAFD Tcpip[TCP/IP]" and "MSAFD Tcpip
[UDP/IP]" but nothing else) Even after deleting the
registry keys and installingTCP/IP, I still have only two
items listed at System Information>
components/Network/Protocol

I used the netdiag tool from support tools and it
returned that winsock test passed.

Swapping cables between the working and non-working
computers does not help.

Finally, I also ooked through KBA 314067, but only
confirmed that I cannot get an IP address from my router,
That is, my NIC passes, but the machine cannot locate my
mail server, and the IP address is 169.254.191.109
instead of the desired 198.168.0.x.

Ideas?

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
How to determine and recover from Winsock2 corruption
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811259

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