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From: Scott Davis [mailto Posted At: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:23 AM
Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Conversation: XPS410 -- suddenly I can't see
Subject: XPS410 -- suddenly I can't see

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:42:07 -0400, "Christopher Muto"
wrote:

"S.Lewis" wrote in message
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"Tom Scales" wrote in message
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I am having the weirdest problem. I have an XPS410 running XP.
Boot
the machine, it works fine. Internet access works. File shares
on
other machines work. Other machines can see file shares on this
machine.

After awhile, from minutes to days, other machines can no longer
see the
file shares on this machine and RealVNC can't connect. This
machine can
still connect to other machines, both RealVNC and file shares.
Rebooting fixes the problem.

Figuring it was a typical 'been running this install awhile'
problem, I
formatted the machine and did a fresh XP install.

Worked great.

For two weeks.

The then symptom returned. I have three other, almost identical,
machines and they work just fine. No problems at all.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Tom



Overlooked power management setting for the network adapter?
Intermittent failure on the NIC?

Have a PCI NIC lying around for giggles?

Nothing but guesses.


my thoughts are the same as stew's plus i would also consider
checking
to
the port on the network hub or perhaps just use another port to see
if
that
makes the problem goes away (some 'smart' switches shut down a port
that
generates lots of errors, restarting the pc would reinitiate this
cycle of
it initially working but later being shut down). also, might be
suspect of
the 'security' (firewall) software that might be in use on this
system
vs
that used on the others.


To repeat what Christopher said, you might try uninstalling your
anti-virus/firewall program(s) to see if that makes a difference. I
had a similar problem once caused by my anti-virus program. Pausing
protection didn't fix the problem, but when I uninstalled the program
and rebooted, the shared folders on the machine suddenly became
visible to the other machines on the network.

Problem happens even when run bare of Anti-virus. Only firewall is
Windows in its default settings. Turning it off doesn't help.