Recent content by timbrown

I think it may be time to give this up as a loss and resort to the standard band-aid windows reinstall. I've rarely found it profitable to try to be surgical; generally the expense of the labor exceeds the value of the computer. We know the hardware is ok so a reinstall should deal with it...

THis computer isn't mine. I"d have to ask the customer if he has ever had such software installed. I doubt it though. Pinging results in reply from 127.0.0.1 time<1ms TTL=128 four times. 4 sent , 4 received, 0 lost. Localhost time < 1ms 4 sent, 4 received 0 lost.

no go. ipconfig reports same as before.

Sorry, I forgot that element. BRB.

Done. All settings were already correct. No internet. No connection available, so claims WIndows when I try to connect it to my network via wire.

"Can you plug the wired adapter into your router and temporarily disable the wireless card (type ncpa.cpl into the search or run dialog box and hit enter, select then right click the wireless adapter and choose disable)" ***Done.*** "Make sure the the IPv4 properties of the wired adapter is...

Rosource protection found no problems.

I'm back. Running sfc. at 65% currently. My customer said that this problem occurred after installing AVG antivirus. I got on an AVG thread and they say that their software wouldn't cause this (short version).

I'll get to this after a few errands and let you know. In the interim, I have run a Linux liveCD and it worked fine under linux. Reported TCP/IP as 192.168.1.5 with DHCP at 1.2. So, this eliminates windows *thinking* it's working when it really isn't. I"m referring to the realtek.

I've reset both winsock and tcp/ip. Nothing different. EDIT: Yes, I rebooted.

Both are working properly. Sony eSupport - VPCEE3WFX - Model Home

LInk to the page for this computer: Sony eSupport - VPCEE3WFX - Model Home

Showing: Atheros AR9285 Wireless Netowrk Adapter Microsoft virtual Miniport Adapter Realtick PCIe GBE Family Controller I'll go look for a link to the right model page.

Did it: Got the same results.

I"m having the same problem! I have a Sony Viao vpcee3wfx. The above instructions led to no solution. The pass key I entered is correct. In doing an "ipconfig /all", I get the following: windows ip configuration: host name : nic-vaio primary dns suffix : blank node type : hybrid ip...