Network Problem

[tungtung]

I've got a very strange problem that just seem to occur out of nowhere last night. I was browsing using my desktop and it suddenly just crashed on me. After restarting for whatever reason it just won't connect to the network at all anymore.

The computer was using static IP, and I have double checked the setting and none was changed. I even tried to set it to DHCP but it just won't get any IP address at all from my router. Before this error occured everything just work perfect, the reason why I put it on static IP is just to have more control of what IP goes where since I have 4 computers connected to the router.

This computer is running Win 2k SP 3. I have tried uninstall the TCP/IP but that was not helpful, in fact it kinda make things worse, since after I did that now the computer is running very slow for some reason, there is no HD activity or CPU activity (according to system monitor) but the computer was very slow, even after the TCP/IP is installed again. I've also reinstall the network card driver, that didn't help either.

So if anyone can offer any help it would be appreciated. Oh yea basically the setup is that this computer (along with all other computers in my house) are connected to a router. Even with a static IP this computer can't even ping the router. It can only ping the IP 127.0.0.1 and it's own static IP. When using DHCP the IP I got was the 169.x.x.x IP address.

 

[amdskip]

I would try replacing the network card.

Also, I would setup and leave your network as DHCP.

 

[Xtremist]

The 169.x.x.x isn't a DHCP'd address. It's an address MS assigns if a DHCP fails. I'm with amdskip, first try replacing the NIC. If you aren't firewalled inside your LAN you could also try connecting the problem PC via crossover cable to a working PC, assign the same static IP it used to have and then try to ping that static IP as well as the IP of the other PC (that doesn't have a problem). That would help know if the NIC is bad.

Good luck!

 

[tungtung]

Ok ... finally figured out the problem ... apparently somehow someway when the computer crashed it brought down one of the port in my router ... I have no idea how this happens, and I've even asked a friend who is a network support analyst only to get a blank stare ... so in the end what I did was restart the router and that fix the problem completely.