What's Up w / XP-Pro?

[O5O]

Last Saturday march 23, I had been working on my computer for a couple
of days straight. I shut the computer down in the morning before
leaving home to go to a party. When I came back later that night, I
turned the computer back on and couldn't connect to the internet.

It looks like the DNS name resolver won't resolve any host names for
some reason.

I can ping IP addresses out on the internet, but if I use a host
name.... nothing happens.

I have had this stuipid windows validation update thing hanging around
on my taskbar for maybe three weeks to a month now, and now it seems
that it has disappeared from the update notification. The last update
applied was march 16, 2007 (XP Update KB929338 and Hotfix WMF 11 SDK
KB929399).

The DNS client is running, and the network config looks ok to me, but
when I try to delete the whole network configuration and start
over..... Windows won't let me. When I highlight the network
connection and press delete... It says I can't delete the network
connection while it is "busy connecting." Ironically the status says
that it is "connected, Firewalled." If I disable it, and then press
delete, it first asks me "Am I sure I want to delete the network
connection?" to which I reply "yes.... I wouldn't have pressed delete
if I didn't want to delete it.", and then then it frankly tells me
that the "connection that I have selected cannot be deleted." with no
explanation as to why or why not.

I printed out the routing table:

===========================================================================
Interface List
0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface
0x20002 ...00 40 ca 8b d8 b6 ...... Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast
Ethernet NIC - Packet Scheduler Miniport
===========================================================================
===========================================================================
Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface
Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.50.1 192.168.50.5
20
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1
1
192.168.50.0 255.255.255.224 192.168.50.5 192.168.50.5
20
192.168.50.5 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1
20
192.168.50.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.50.5 192.168.50.5
20
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 192.168.50.5 192.168.50.5
20
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.50.5 192.168.50.5
1
Default Gateway: 192.168.50.1
===========================================================================
Persistent Routes:
None

I guess the routing looks ok, except I don't know what 224.0.0.0 is
used for?

Netstat on the other hand looks a little thin. I don't know exacly
what XP-Pro is supposed to look like, but my old Win98SE box used to
spit out a whole bunch of stuff.

In fact I had to fire up the old Win98SE box sitting next to the XP
box and connected to the exact same network just to get this message
out. I think that this proves that the network itself is working ok,
'cause every other machine on it connects to the internet just fine.

Netstat output listing:

Active Connections

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
PID
TCP LISTENING
4
[System]

TCP LISTENING
4
[System]

UDP *:*
4
[System]

UDP *:*
4
[System]

UDP *:*
4
[System]


Does anybody have a clue how I can get my network back up and running?
'Cause I sure don't.

Regards from,
Chris (O5O)

P.S. BTW just to complicate things a bit further.... A week or two
prior to this problem, my next door neighbor caught some kind of virus
or something on his computer, so his network was down. I uploaded PC-
tools SpyWare Doctor, and AVG-anti Virus for him. Naturally I had to
install them on them on my box first to see how they worked.... They
seemed to work just fine until March 23. They have since been removed
subsequent to the network problem described above.

I also tried turning the firewall off and on and off again and still
no joy getting hostnames to resolve correctly.

 

[O5O]

Can anyone tell me how to get a hardcopy of the system event log?

TIA

Chris

Last Saturday march 23, I had been working on my computer for a couple

....

 

[R. McCarty]

Open the specific log, click the console's Text option "Action" and
from the menu choose Export List, pick a descriptive name & location.

 

[O5O]

Open the specific log, click the console's Text option "Action" and
from the menu choose Export List, pick a descriptive name & location.






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Now I'm really ticked off. I came in this morning to find that one of
my IDE drives was not found. I wiggled the power cords and ide cables
and it came back online, but I forgot to check the BIOS boot order
before doing a repair from the installation CD. The old IDE drive had
a version of XP on it from a year or two ago before I installed my two
SATA drives. Now the system thinks that the SATA drives are F and G
instead of C and D, and the IDE drive are C and D instead of F and
G...... I put the bios order back the way it was supposed to be, but
the drive letters won't switch back, and the old version of XP is
booting instead of the new one....

How can I get my drive letters back the way they are supposed to be?

As far as the original system is concerned, I checked my event logs to
see if I could find anything that looked suspicious that might have
caused the network failure. I couldn't see anything major different
from what was in the logs from February on when the system was working
ok.

The only thing is... it looks like there are a lot of drive (hard
drive) errors at different times. Am I correct to assume that this is
not normal behavior for disc drives? I am not sure wether these are
serious errors or not.

Could someone who knows what to look for take a peek at my logs here,
and let me know may have caused the network problem?

http://www.csupomona.edu/~cthompson1/ftp/

http://www.csupomona.edu/~cthompson1/ftp/System.Event.Log.evt

http://www.csupomona.edu/~cthompson1/ftp/System.Event.Log.txt

http://www.csupomona.edu/~cthompson1/ftp/Application.Event.Log.evt

http://www.csupomona.edu/~cthompson1/ftp/Application.Event.Log.txt

Thanks again,
Chris "O5O"

 

[O5O]

For some reason my XP-Pro machine will not resolve internet names to
IP addresses.

Have had some hard drive problems "Found.006" with two "filexxxx.chk"
files generated february 20, 2007.

Booted installation cd and did "system recovery."

Have removed all of my windows components "networking services" and
network configurations and re-installed all from scratch from the XP
installation cd. Unfortunately the network configuration re-installed
exactly as before. I didn't have to re-enter new IP confiuration
addresses.

Compared services.msc on a working XP-Home machine with exactly the
same configuration except for the computer name and IP address.

On the XP-Home machine IPSEC services are "started automatic", but the
XP-Pro machine will not start due to "error 10106: The requested
service provider could not be loaded or initialized."

When I check the DNS client it is "started automatic" on the XP-Home
machine, but on the XP-Pro machine it fails to start giving an error
message "error 1058: The service cannot be started, either because it
is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it."

According to the services DNS dependencies, DNS requires TCP/IP
Protocol Drivers and the IPSEC Driver.

When searching the XP-Home machine for lsass a file
LSASS.EXE-20DB6D1B.pf appears in the the C:\Windows\Prefetch
directory... There is no corresponding file in the XP-Pro prefetch
directory.

Does anyone have any ideas how I can get my DNS working again?

Regards from, O5O