WinME will not access the network.
 

I have a HP Pavilion 700 MHZ machine with WinME installed. I cannot access the network.
I have configured the NIC for TCP/IP only along with the NIC.
when I do a IPConfig /all I get the following:
IP 169.254.157.172
DHCP Server is: 255.255.255.255
Subnet Mask is 155.255.0.0
DHCP is Enabled.
The device manager shows the NIC is properly installed and there are no X's or ?'s.
But when I try IE all I get is "Page cannot be displayed"

I have reinstalled the OS twice. Tried to install Win98 on this machine - to no avail.

I have installed the NIC in my current machine and I am using it to access the network using
the same cable and of course NIC and the same Router. I cannot ping or use any of the Network
commands to get outside my machine.

Is there a good diagnostic to prove one of the controllers that has failed? My guess is the
Mother board is failing.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Larry

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I have a HP Pavilion 700 MHZ machine with WinME installed. I cannot
access the network.
I have configured the NIC for TCP/IP only along with the NIC.
when I do a IPConfig /all I get the following:
IP 169.254.157.172
DHCP Server is: 255.255.255.255
Subnet Mask is 155.255.0.0
DHCP is Enabled.
The device manager shows the NIC is properly installed and there are
no X's or ?'s.
But when I try IE all I get is "Page cannot be displayed"

I have reinstalled the OS twice. Tried to install Win98 on this
machine - to no avail.

I have installed the NIC in my current machine and I am using it to
access the network using the same cable and of course NIC and the
same Router. I cannot ping or use any of the Network commands to get
outside my machine.

Is there a good diagnostic to prove one of the controllers that has
failed? My guess is the Mother board is failing.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Larry

The infamous 169.254.* address...

Worse I suppose it's got to be in ME?

Alright. Assign it an IP address. 192.168.1.30 or something... Does it take
it - disable it and re-enable it.

Anyone remember how to manually squash the stack in ME so you can re-install
TCP/IP if it comes to that? (That address is what is handed out by the OS
when, well, it isn't getting a real one... DHCP is being handled by what?
Did I mention I dislike networking errors but, well, I opened the group
today so here I am...)

--
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http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my
declining years to the composition of a textbook which shall focus the
whole art of detection into one volume." - Sherlock Holmes

WinME will not access the network.
 

Galen wrote:

In ,
Happiness is had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:


I have a HP Pavilion 700 MHZ machine with WinME installed. I cannot
access the network.
I have configured the NIC for TCP/IP only along with the NIC.
when I do a IPConfig /all I get the following:
IP 169.254.157.172
DHCP Server is: 255.255.255.255
Subnet Mask is 155.255.0.0
DHCP is Enabled.
The device manager shows the NIC is properly installed and there are
no X's or ?'s.
But when I try IE all I get is "Page cannot be displayed"

I have reinstalled the OS twice. Tried to install Win98 on this
machine - to no avail.

I have installed the NIC in my current machine and I am using it to
access the network using the same cable and of course NIC and the
same Router. I cannot ping or use any of the Network commands to get
outside my machine.

Is there a good diagnostic to prove one of the controllers that has
failed? My guess is the Mother board is failing.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Larry


The infamous 169.254.* address...

Worse I suppose it's got to be in ME?

Alright. Assign it an IP address. 192.168.1.30 or something... Does it take
it - disable it and re-enable it.

Anyone remember how to manually squash the stack in ME so you can re-install
TCP/IP if it comes to that?

Do you mean other than reinstalling ME? ;-)

Try he http://support.microsoft.com/kb/286748/EN-US/

John

WinME will not access the network.
 

In ,
John John had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:


Do you mean other than reinstalling ME? ;-)

Try he http://support.microsoft.com/kb/286748/EN-US/

John

That'd be the evil link. Wow.... I'd forgotten the last half-dozen steps in
that so it's a good thing I didn't try to type it from memory.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my
declining years to the composition of a textbook which shall focus the
whole art of detection into one volume." - Sherlock Holmes