Nothing FREAKING opens!!

[Bill in SD, CA]

Ok, I'm not sure how to explain this but here goes.

This is a long story but I know you need the blow-by-blow to assess the siuation - W2K BTW.

Yesterday morning I installed MS security updates, Zone Alarm update, and all went well.

Re-booted and everything was fine.

Went to work at noon and still no problems

Came home for lunch at 5:30 still fine.

Got home from work at 9:30 and everthing A-OK.

Wanted to show my son the web page I uploaded and at 9:40 he tells me "page can't be displayed" etc., etc.

Ran ipconfig and lo and behold my settings had changed and I no longer had a "connection-specific DNS suffix (normally sd.cox.net), my "IP address" had changed to something off the wall, and the "default gateway" had disappeared.

Did a release and got the message that the release could not happen because the DHCP settings were auto-confgiured by the ethernet adapter.

No problem - I uninstalled the ethernet card, shut down, re-booted and re-installed. No luck.

Next I uninstalled Client for MS, File and Printer sharing, TCP/IP, re-booted, re-installed, and still crap.

Checked all the settings with this PII I'm on and everything was the same but still the ipconfig settings were the same as before.

Removed the ethernet adapter and the above settings together, re-booted, and still the same results.

Ran a trojan scan, adaware, and spybot - just some minor tracking cookies in adaware that you always pick up.

Still not able to release and renew.

Said "Screw it", shut down, and went to bed.

Got up this morning, powered up, and all of a sudden I'm back on the network and internet - GREAT!!

Not great.

Started doing some web page updating and about 15 minutes into doing that I lose network connection again.

Run ipconfig and everything was as it should be.

Here's where it really goes downhill.

Did a release and it took about 3 minutes to release.

Did a renew and got the same message about 3 minutes later regarding the ethernet adapter and DHCP.

Decided to go into disk management and the hour glass comes up, disappears, and nothing happens.

Tried again in admin tools - same thing.

Tried opening Norton System Works and the same thing happens.

Nothing would open.

So I shut down and before it does I get all of these "program not responding - end task" messages.

Ran chkdsk /p in Recovery Console and it says there are one or more errors on the drive.

Ran /r and it just finished.

And the magic answer is .................................................. ..........??

I'm baffled!!

Bill

[MDS]

bill is the drive partioned? If so can you get into the other drive to get files? Also try in msdos mode to see if you can access files. Sounds like bad sectors in you HD.


as a last resort you could try to do a repair off the win2k disk.

also have you tried booting into safe mode?

[Bill in SD, CA]

120 drive partitioned 40/80.

Guess if I have to I can slave the drive to my PII and copy files.

My email and photos are on C:\.

** Kicks self in butt **

If I can avoid a format - well, you get the drift.........................

Doing a chkdsk /r on D: right now.

It got to 75% and went back to 50% just now.

Bill

[Bill in SD, CA]

This is what I'm supposed to have:






This is what I have:






This what I get when I try to renew with an error:





Bill

[Bill in SD, CA]

Update:

Programs now open.

On re-boot I can to connect to the net.

Only twice.

After that ipconfig settings change.

Bill

[MDS]

have you tried rebooting your router or do a renew DHCP clinents?
I had a problem with a win2k box once that was popping out off IP's but I can't for the life of me remeber what caused it.

BTW what nic are you using?(if onboard what mobo) and what router are you using?

Are the IP setting staying correct now or just monetary

[Bill in SD, CA]

I've re-booted the router (Linksys BEFSR41) to no avail.

Don't think it's the problem as my other 4 computers on the network work flawlessly.

Ethernet is D-Link DFE-530TX+ PCI.

How do you renew DHCP clients?

BTW, thanks for the help MDS!!

Didn't expect a lot of help as I've done just about everything obvious for a fix.

Beyond that ......................... who knows?

Bill

Edit: Didn't see you edit but when I run ipconfig I get what I am supposed to have but I believe that what I'm seeing isn't correct and that they have reset.

[MDS]

It's under the config screen of your router (BTW you have the same router as me) by typing 192.168.1.1 in your browser addy bar. then enter the password you have it set at or the defualt password "admin" then under the DHCP tab clients table you can remove and refresh.

[Bill in SD, CA]

Did that - no difference.

Running NAV now.

When that finishes I think I will uninstall Zone Alarm and see if that may be the cause.

After all, what good is a firewall when you can't even ping yourself?

Bill

[MDS]

make sure you completely remove ZA not just by add/remove programs. Follow details from ZA here