Re: Loss Broadband Connection

From: Mordechai_flip (Mordechaiflip_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 03:57:03 -0800

That sounds right, about the same time, I was having trouble with Nortions
System Works update and uninstalled it. Is a clean install the only way to
fix it? The idea of having to do that makes me shutter.

"Jim Macklin" wrote:

> Just had ands solved a similar problem on my son's Dell. It
> seems that an update to Norton Internet Security was
> automatically blocking XP services, such as the application
> gateway layer service and basically any application that
> tried to connect to the Internet. Even turning Norton off
> did not fix the problem, what ever registry that it set was
> not reset. After several days of trying to reset with
> ipconfig, using the repair button in the network properties
> (cache could not be cleared, didn't work) ended up deleting
> the C: partition (just OS and apps) and doing a clean
> install. It was during this that Norton problem was
> identified.
>
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> "Mordechai_flip" <Mordechaiflip@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote in message
> news:72D12AB2-98D1-450D-AD9E-D509702ECC12@microsoft.com...
> | Every time I have to restart my computer I lose my cable
> connection and have
> | to use ipconfig then ipconfig /renew to get it working
> again. I had this
> | problem earlier, and nothing I have tried has worked. I am
> running XP Home
> | SP2 with a USB cable modem, and no router. All known
> drivers are up to date,
> | and there isn't any problem listed in the device manager.
> I have uninstalled
> | and re installed Zone Alarm and Norton's, run spybot
> searches, virus checks
> | with up to date programs,and turned off the Windows
> firewall.
> |
> | Any other ideas? I, my cable company, and microsoft are
> clean out.
> |
> | Error Log (there was and address, I put in the stars):
> |
> | Unable to contact a DHCP server. The Automatic Private IP
> Address
> | ***.***.***.*** will be assigned to dial-in clients.
> Clients may be unable to
> | access resources on the network.
> |
> | For more information, see Help and Support Center at
> | http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
> |
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