Criminy, my PC is broken AGAIN

IronYuppy · 07-31-08, 09:54 PM

I'm now on my laptop.

Last night, I was posting something to 'Mud and the internet just disconnected.

I checked all the connections, did the ipconfig bullshit thing, even uninstalled/reinstalled the ethernet card (built into the motherboard). Nothing.

Did all the diagnostics, and the device is working properly.

So today, after trying every-freakin-thing else, I went and bought a stand-alone ethernet card. Installed it, it's sending/receiving data and all the diagnostics work, but it - and the original ethernet device - simply will not detect a DNS.

Tried removing the firewall - nothing. Tried system restore - nothing. Tried hard-boots - nothing.

Tried everything - nothing.

I know the network is fine - I'm on it now (on my laptop). It's the fucking desktop.

This thing has never worked right.

What chokes me is that I wasn't even doing anything weird - it simply stopped working in the middle of a 'net session.

Fuck. That is all.

Mr. Toad · 07-31-08, 09:57 PM

Criminy? I thought my mother made up that word as a curse substitute.

Oh, sorry about your shitty desktop.

calico kid · 07-31-08, 10:06 PM

I have something like that going on too. I just hit talk on the phone and let it connect and and when it dose the dsl reconnects

IronYuppy · 07-31-08, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by calico kid

I have something like that going on too. I just hit talk on the phone and let it connect and and when it dose the dsl reconnects

I'm on cable - no phones involved. I don't even have a phone.

It's just some goofy setting somewhere in the machine - adding a second e-net card without success leads me to believe it's a software thing, but I have reset EVERYTHING. It's just fucked, is all.

LoveTractor · 07-31-08, 10:13 PM

Is this the computer you just reformatted?

Have you tried resetting your cable modem and router?

IronYuppy · 07-31-08, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by LoveTractor

Is this the computer you just reformatted?

Have you tried resetting your cable modem?

Yes and yes.

Like I said, the modem is fine - I transferred the cable from the desktop to my laptop, and I'm using it right now.

calico kid · 07-31-08, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by IronYuppy

I'm on cable - no phones involved. I don't even have a phone.

It's just some goofy setting somewhere in the machine - adding a second e-net card without success leads me to believe it's a software thing, but I have reset EVERYTHING. It's just fucked, is all.

Lol. I have a land line phone and it rings all the time I have not answered it or checked the messages in more then a year.

IronYuppy · 07-31-08, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by calico kid

Lol. I have a land line phone and it rings all the time I have not answered it or checked the messages in more then a year.

"the call is coming from inside the house..."

cruiser88 · 08-01-08, 06:07 AM

My old internet had to be rest everyday

. Fawkers finally gave me a new box

cruiser88 · 08-01-08, 06:08 AM

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Originally Posted by calico kid

Lol. I have a land line phone and it rings all the time I have not answered it or checked the messages in more then a year.

PIck up...its crazy calling

carboncycles · 08-01-08, 06:57 AM

reinstall your drivers? drivers become corrupted as well from time to time

johnny4ever · 08-01-08, 07:07 AM

Is this computer about which you speak in Canada?

wob · 08-01-08, 07:34 AM

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Originally Posted by johnny4ever

Is this computer about which you speak in Canada?

Yep, he just needs to yell down the street and tell Ethel and Thelma to quit yapping about their latest quilts and reconnect him.

re_guderian · 08-01-08, 07:42 AM

Are you using a router (since you have a desktop and a laptop)? If so, try bypassing the router and hooking the cable modem directly to the desktop. I've had a router go bad before. If you don't have a router, then I got nuthin'...

NaterGator · 08-01-08, 08:06 AM

What does running:
ipconfig /all
output? You've gotta run it from the command line, obviously

IronYuppy · 08-01-08, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by NaterGator

What does running:
ipconfig /all
output? You've gotta run it from the command line, obviously

I assume each card says "media disconnected" because the lan cable isn't currently plugged in...

NaterGator · 08-01-08, 09:01 AM

Well plug it in schmuckface

I'm wondering if your forcing a network mode that your network hardware can't support, IE: if you are somehow forcing it to a 1gig/full duplex connection and it needs a 10meg half.

IronYuppy · 08-01-08, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by NaterGator

Well plug it in schmuckface

I'm wondering if your forcing a network mode that your network hardware can't support, IE: if you are somehow forcing it to a 1gig/full duplex connection and it needs a 10meg half.

I has computer.

Here's with the LAN cable plugged into the motherboard's on-board ethernet:

Here's with the LAN cable plugged into the new ethernet card I bought yesterday:

It's MEHthernet.

NaterGator · 08-01-08, 09:50 AM

Ok, DHCP is failing. What does your computer connect to? Is it a cable modem with a switch on the back, or a broadband router of some sort?

IronYuppy · 08-01-08, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by NaterGator

Ok, DHCP is failing. What does your computer connect to? Is it a cable modem with a switch on the back, or a broadband router of some sort?

It is a....

Motorola SB-5101 cable modem.

Which works when my laptop is plugged into it.....