limited or no connection

[George Hallam]

at the bottom of my xp screen on the network icon it say limited or no connection and an exclamation mark before you ask it does the connection work because i am duel booting vista ultimate and the internet works fine. why doesnt it work on xp? and how do i sort it out? thanks its been puzzling

o ye on Bf 2142 it uses punk buster but on my vista it doesnt work and i cant go on a game for more than a minute how do i get it to work? worked on XP (:p but cant use it no internet :D )

[Paul Komski]

why doesnt it work on xp?
Are you saying that the network doesn't work on XP or that you are getting this notification message under XP. If the latter, then upgrading the NIC drivers might work but I have often seen this notification with no obvious adverse affects. I have turned off the notification in the connection's properties before now just to get rid of this prompt.

[classicsoftware]

You are very unclear as to what works. Please use complete words not IM speak.

Please list each OS and what does not work.

[George Hallam]

sorry im used to using IM speak i try not to use it on here put sometimes i use it with out knowing.

ok then
i have windows XP and vista ultimate

on windows XP i cannot access the internet, on the bottom right hand corner of the screen were your connections are it says "limited or no connection". yet when i log onto vista the internet works fine. so it isn't my router and i cant update it (no internet)

the other question was that on Battle field 2142 it uses "punkbuster" when online gaming on Xp it works fine (when the connection works) but on Vista it doesn't have you got any idea what the problem is? i

my other

[classicsoftware]

Please report the following information:

1) Are there any yellow ! or Red X in device manager?

2) Please report your IP address, by clicking start->run-> and typing CMD. At the command prompt type IPCONFIG and press enter.

If your IP address is 0.0.0.0 this usually means a hardware failure
If your IP address is in the range of 169.x.x.x it usually means the NIC cannot get an IP address from the router
If your IP address is 192.X.X.X this means the card is working and gets an IP address from the router and there is a Windows or browser configuarion issue.


How log after installing Vista did this occur in XP?

[Paul Komski]

Go with ClassicS...

... also any firewalls running and any SP1 or SP2 with WinXP.

...and
http://www.pchell.com/support/limitedconnectivity.shtml

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892896

[George Hallam]

ok will do that now. it wasn't because of vista, it happened so i install it

[George Hallam]

right i went onto xp looked on the cmd thingy

i got
ip address 169.254.15.67
subnet mask 255.255.0.0

i installed the patch from that link and it still comes up with the same thing

there were a few red items one was my printer and another was a dodgey graphics driver

p.s should i not post my IP address

[Paul Komski]

As ClassicS.. indicated, you are not getting the ip address from the router.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/cmtips/badip.html#ip169

Any firewall and which SP ??

[George Hallam]

doesnt matter now i have formated and re installed

[classicsoftware]

What an amazing troubleshooting technique. You saw a bug so you burned the house down. Well it is one way to solve the problem....:D :D

[Paul Komski]

Well it is one way to solve the problemTrue indeed. But if it returns no-one is any the wiser.

[George Hallam]

true true a few weeks back i went to a computer repair shop for work experience and ANY problem they had the first ting they did was format and re-install and everything worked fine after but lucky my Os partition is 10GB so it easy just a case of re-installing drivers and updates. it always works for me but it can be a disaster is you dont back up

[classicsoftware]

true true a few weeks back i went to a computer repair shop for work experience and ANY problem they had the first ting they did was format and re-install and everything worked fine after but lucky my Os partition is 10GB so it easy just a case of re-installing drivers and updates. it always works for me but it can be a disaster is you dont back up

Tell me what the name of the store is, so if I every Computer trouble in Cypress, I know who to avoid. That is lazy and shows a lack of knowledge.

[George Hallam]

i no what you mean. eg nero woundnt install so FORMAT, driver didnt install FORMAT, keyboard didn't work FORMAT. think it better here