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XPS410 -- suddenly I can't see
Not just for laughs, do you have a live Linux distro to try? They make for nice
overall diagnostic tests... Ben Myers On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:29:50 GMT, "Tom Scales" wrote: Yes, same workgroup and since it works intermittently it seems like that isn't the issue. Good thought. -----Original Message----- From: Tony Harding ] Posted At: Friday, October 10, 2008 3:05 AM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: XPS410 -- suddenly I can't see Subject: XPS410 -- suddenly I can't see Tom Scales wrote: 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. At first I was afraid you might be going blind. Have you checked to see if the workgroup name of the failing box is still the same as the others? I've seen this happen a few times. |
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"Tom Scales" wrote in message news:2F4A751809A7424CB46EDED660F65F2B@M2010... But that is the problem. I formatted and reinstalled Windows from scratch. No firewall other than Windows firewall. AVG anti-virus. There are only two applications installed. AVG and BeyondTV. That is ALL it is used for. You can't even ping it with its IP address. I'd still add a PCI NIC just to see. I keep a few 3Com 3C905TX cards around here just for this reason. Good luck. |
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XPS410 -- suddenly I can't see
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:21:35 -0500, "S.Lewis"
wrote: "Tom Scales" wrote in message news:2F4A751809A7424CB46EDED660F65F2B@M2010... But that is the problem. I formatted and reinstalled Windows from scratch. No firewall other than Windows firewall. AVG anti-virus. There are only two applications installed. AVG and BeyondTV. That is ALL it is used for. You can't even ping it with its IP address. I'd still add a PCI NIC just to see. I keep a few 3Com 3C905TX cards around here just for this reason. Good luck. I agree, no harm to try. I'm sure at this point Tom will try it. Assuming all else suggested is not the problem, I wonder if it could be in the cable or at the connection (cable or pc)? Hopefully Tom will keep us abreast. |
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XPS410 -- suddenly I can't see
-----Original Message----- From: RnR ] Posted At: Friday, October 10, 2008 6:36 AM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: XPS410 -- suddenly I can't see Subject: XPS410 -- suddenly I can't see On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:29:50 GMT, "Tom Scales" wrote: Yes, same workgroup and since it works intermittently it seems like that isn't the issue. Good thought. Might as well uinstall the TCP/IP stack and reinstalling it. Sometimes that go faulty. Also is the network cable good ? I think a fresh XP install took care of the stack. Three different network cables |
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XPS410 -- suddenly I can't see
I don't, but since the problem is random, it is a pain to find!
Must buy new NIC -----Original Message----- From: Ben Myers ] Posted At: Friday, October 10, 2008 10:09 AM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: XPS410 -- suddenly I can't see Subject: XPS410 -- suddenly I can't see Not just for laughs, do you have a live Linux distro to try? They make for nice overall diagnostic tests... Ben Myers |
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XPS410 -- suddenly I can't see
-----Original Message----- From: S.Lewis ] Posted At: Friday, October 10, 2008 10:22 AM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: XPS410 -- suddenly I can't see Subject: XPS410 -- suddenly I can't see "Tom Scales" wrote in message news:2F4A751809A7424CB46EDED660F65F2B@M2010... But that is the problem. I formatted and reinstalled Windows from scratch. No firewall other than Windows firewall. AVG anti-virus. There are only two applications installed. AVG and BeyondTV. That is ALL it is used for. You can't even ping it with its IP address. I'd still add a PCI NIC just to see. I keep a few 3Com 3C905TX cards around here just for this reason. Good luck. I absolutely have to have gigabit. Off to buy a NIC |
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XPS410 -- suddenly I can't see
On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:21:20 GMT, "Tom Scales"
wrote: 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 Tom, did you ever resolve the above? Just curious. |
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-----Original Message----- From: RnR ] Posted At: Friday, October 17, 2008 6:15 AM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: XPS410 -- suddenly I can't see Subject: XPS410 -- suddenly I can't see On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:21:20 GMT, "Tom Scales" wrote: 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 Tom, did you ever resolve the above? Just curious. No, it still happens. I just set it up in my closet and reboot regularly. One of these days I'll try a PCI NIC. |
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XPS410 -- suddenly I can't see
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:55:05 GMT, "Tom Scales"
wrote: -----Original Message----- From: RnR ] Posted At: Friday, October 17, 2008 6:15 AM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: XPS410 -- suddenly I can't see Subject: XPS410 -- suddenly I can't see On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:21:20 GMT, "Tom Scales" wrote: 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 Tom, did you ever resolve the above? Just curious. No, it still happens. I just set it up in my closet and reboot regularly. One of these days I'll try a PCI NIC. Thanks Tom. Seems like from everyone's input, that is a logical choice to try now. I also have a nagging problem but not related to this topic. I will resolve it on my own in due time. Oh yeah Tom, good luck on that problem. |
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