Re: Is onboard NIC kaput or something wrong with drivers/tcpip stack/a sys file? (ipconfig output: Unable to query host name.)

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Sounds like something got fried. That's why a UPS is so appropriate these
days.
<Holy Schmoly> wrote in message
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: My computer was working just fine until there was a split second power
: outage in my area. Everything shut off, but then all came back in a
: matter of a second.
:
: After that, I powered up my computer and I'm not able to get online at
: all since. When I perform ipconfig with or without any flags, I get
: this message:
: Windows IP Configuration
: An internal error occurred: The request is not supported.
: Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services for further help.
: Additonal information: Unable to query host name.
:
: In my Start->Settings->Control Panel->Network Connections, I don't see
: the network icon which was associated with the properly functioning
: network before all this happened.
:
: I searched and searched and tried a few things already. I performed a
: console recovery following the instructions put forth here,
:
http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.php?showtopic=9743&pid=162308&mode=threaded&start=#entry162308
:
: But didn't work for me, even though the OP had the exact same error
: message with his ipconfig.
:
: I also reset the WINSOCK entries to installation defaults using "netsh
: winsock reset catalog" and also reset TCP/IP stack to installation
: defaults with "netsh int ip reset reset.log" but to no avail.
:
: When I look in Device Manager, my onboard NIC has the yellow
: exclamation mark beside and I've uninstalled it and rebooted and cold
: booted and reinstalled the drivers for it, but I still have the
: exclamation mark.
:
: I'm really at a loss here with this problem and was wondering if
: anyone's ever experienced something like this and am looking for some
: input, suggestions or insight into this matter. Thanks for your time
: and courtesy.
:
: My mobo's an Asus P5B-VM with a Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit
: Ethernet onboard NIC.
:
: Oh, another thing, I use an app which monitors my bitusage called
: DUMeter and when it starts, it gives this error message:
: ********** PROBING DATA COLLECTION METHOD [0] **********
: C:\WINDOWS\system32\IpHlpApi.dll version:
: Description: IP Helper API
: File version: 5.1.2600.2912 (xpsp.060519-0015)
: Product version: 5.1.2600.2912
: IpHlpStatInit: Interface table size is zero.
:
: ********** PROBING DATA COLLECTION METHOD [1] **********
: SnmpStatInit: Not supported on Windows 2000+.
: ERROR: No compatible network interfaces were found.


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