No IP address after SP2 installed

[Guest]

After "upgrading" to SP2 (on an XP Home installation), my computer cannot get
an IP address. I get the "Limited or no availablilty" warning, and can't pull
an IP address from the router or even ping it.
I've tried "netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt", "netsh winsock reset" and
this: http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html. Nothing's helped.
If I uninstall SP2, everything's fine. It's only with SP2 installed that I
can't get an IP address (and the "firewall" is not enabled).
I've even removed all traces of the NIC (even in Safe mode) and let Windows
reinstall it.
Any ideas before I reinstall Windows completely?
Thanks.

 

[Chuck]

After "upgrading" to SP2 (on an XP Home installation), my computer cannot get
an IP address. I get the "Limited or no availablilty" warning, and can't pull
an IP address from the router or even ping it.
I've tried "netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt", "netsh winsock reset" and
this: http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html. Nothing's helped.
If I uninstall SP2, everything's fine. It's only with SP2 installed that I
can't get an IP address (and the "firewall" is not enabled).
I've even removed all traces of the NIC (even in Safe mode) and let Windows
reinstall it.
Any ideas before I reinstall Windows completely?
Thanks.

Did you check with the NIC vendor for SP2 compliant drivers?

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Cheers,
Chuck
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[Guest]

By the way, Hans-Georg Michna has an EXCELLENT resource for in-depth XP
problem solving at http://www.michna.com/kb/index.htm.
Thank you for the effort you've put in to this site, Hans-Georg. I'm sure
other IT pros like myself appreciate it.

-Steve

 

[Steve Winograd [MVP]]

After "upgrading" to SP2 (on an XP Home installation), my computer cannot get
an IP address. I get the "Limited or no availablilty" warning, and can't pull
an IP address from the router or even ping it.
I've tried "netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt", "netsh winsock reset" and
this: http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html. Nothing's helped.
If I uninstall SP2, everything's fine. It's only with SP2 installed that I
can't get an IP address (and the "firewall" is not enabled).
I've even removed all traces of the NIC (even in Safe mode) and let Windows
reinstall it.
Any ideas before I reinstall Windows completely?
Thanks.

Try this command:

netsh winsock reset catalog

Try explicitly configuring the speed and duplex modes for the NIC.

Download and install the latest NIC driver program.
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[Guest]

Chuck,
Thanks, but it's a standard CNETPro 2000 NIC, similar to ones I've used in
other XP machines with no problems. I've tried others in here too, with no
luck.

-Steve

 

[Guest]

Steve,
I tried all that. (I meant to add that I've tried everything on Hans-Georg's
excellent site in addition to what others have posted here) While Windows
says it's reset everything, after I reboot, I still can't get an IP.

-Steve

 

[Chuck]

Chuck,
Thanks, but it's a standard CNETPro 2000 NIC, similar to ones I've used in
other XP machines with no problems. I've tried others in here too, with no
luck.

-Steve

Steve,

Have you deployed SP2 on the other XP computers?

What are the differences between this problem computer, and the other XP
computers? Sometimes "similar to ones" is not the same as "identical to ones".

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Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck sonic net.

 

[Guest]

Chuck,
There are no others at this client's site that have the same NIC, but I
personally have set up others with this NIC, and my own XPSP2 machine has
this same NIC. I've tried other NICs, too, and still can't get an IP address.
I'm almost 100% sure it is not the NIC, but something with SP2, since the
NIC works fine without SP2, and Windows doesn't report any problems with it
under SP2 (other than there's no IP).

-Steve

 

[Quaoar]

Steve,
I tried all that. (I meant to add that I've tried everything on
Hans-Georg's excellent site in addition to what others have posted
here) While Windows says it's reset everything, after I reboot, I
still can't get an IP.

-Steve

I've had to deal with this on several XP SP2 installs: open TCP/IP
properties, advanced button, options tab, TCP/IP filtering, change
entries to Permit All from Permit none.

Q