Re: Intermittent Network problem...

Check the system log using the event veiwer and see
if there are any clues. Also, it may be a typo but is
there any reason you are not running SP2.

"Tcs" <TSmithATEastPointCityDOTorg@> wrote in message news:
> We have a Windows 2k network. We have one old NT4 domain, and a new
> Windows 2k
> domain. (We started making the switch last winter, and haven't completed
> it
> yet.) Both my logon and PC are on the new domain.
>
> I use a Gateway "E" series PC, P4 @2.6GHz, 1.25GB RAM, XP Pro, SP1, latest
> patches as of this past Monday(?).
>
> For months I've had this intermittent problem, which may not occur for
> weeks.
> (This was a real PITA about a year ago, as it occurred multiple times PER
> DAY.
> Recently, haven't had this problem in about a week.)
>
> This morning [early] I rebooted my machine, don't recall why. Everything
> normal. Went to lunch about 13:30, got back to my PC about 14:45. I had
> left
> MS Access open, but my PC locked. (I have a UPS.)
>
> When I got back to it, and sat down, I tried checking my email. I
> couldn't
> communicate with our email server (current version of Exchange). I went
> to a
> system prompt and tried pinging our AS/400. And just as usual, when this
> problem appears, I couldn't ping the 400. I tried pinging our old Data
> General.
> Couldn't get a response from it either. I couldn't communicate with
> ANYTHING on
> the network.
>
> I tried "ipconfig /renew". Windows didn't like this. So I tried
> "ipconfig
> /release" first. This release was successful. But the renew? Nope.
> This is
> what I got:
>
> ------
> 15:23:00.43
> C:\
> > ipconfig /renew
>
> Windows IP Configuration
>
> An error occurred while renewing interface Local Area Connetion : unable
> to
> contact your DHCP server. Request has timed out.
>
> 15:24:12.89
> C:\
> >
> ------
>
> So I shut my PC down, then powered back up and everything was okay.....
>
> So there *was* never any *network* problem. It was just my PC.
>
> Anyone want to hazard a guess as to what *might* be going on? I've never
> installed XP from scratch [on this machine]. I don't want to go thru all
> that,
> but this seems to be the answer I get from around here when I mention this
> problem. (I just took the machine as it was delivered to me, "out of the
> box"
> as it were.)
>
> Any thoughts/suggestions would be welcome. Thanks in advance,
>
> Tom


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