-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Windows XP BSOD When Attempting Wireless Network
- From: Gman <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 22:17:03 -0500
Thank you VERY much for including the Event Viewer info.
You're saying here that the LAN is Disabled. If that's the case, you should
not have been able to get ANY internet activity at all through the laptop.
Is that statement correct? I'm asking this way because the laptop could be
getting a connection some other way that I'm not seeing and I want to be
certain before I have you make any additional changes.
Also, that "Allow other network users to ..." is only used if this is your
main system and you don't have a real network. If that was true, you could
bring in an internet connection to this one system and then share it THROUGH
this system with other computers in your home. Since that's not the case
here (each system gets it's internet connection through the router), you
need to keep that box unchecked.
I'd really love to see the exact wording of that BSOD you get at times. The
only way to show it to me is to grab a pen and paper and write it down, then
type it into a post to the group. Specifically, I need to know the title of
the error (this part will be in ALL CAPS), the wording of the full error (a
single sentence worded similar to "An ___ cause a ____ in ____") and all
five of the codes that are shown afterwards (given in "0x000000D1" format).
Everything else is unnecessary. Armed with that info, I can probably bypass
all of this troubleshooting and just tell you what's wrong (and perhaps how
to fix it). :)
The Event Viewer info is giving me a strong impression that someone has
checked a box on at least one of your networked systems that tells the rest
of them to treat it like a network server. The rest of the systems are set
up for peer to peer networking and that's causing a conflict with your
laptop. Since the one that's trying to run as a server is using an address
ending with a '1' (i.e. 192.168.15.1), I would think that it's the system
that is currently connected to port #1 on the back of your router, although
this is not always the case. For all we know, it may be your laptop that's
improperly set, but the wording of the Event Viewer entry implies otherwise.
So, do you connect to the internet through a high speed connection like DSL
or Cable? If so, I'd really like to take a remote look at your router
settings and possibly at the individual networking settings for each system
on the network to get to the bottom of this. This means first connecting
with one of your computers that's ethernet wired to the router (in other
words, not wirelessly connected) so I can check the router first. I can
also check the network settings for that computer during the same
connection. If I don't find the problem I strongly suspect, we'd need to
disconnect and then reconnect through one of the other computers at your
home. I have no idea how many systems you have there, but one of them is
set up improperly and your laptop is making an issue of it. Let me know if
you're interested in having me come into your home and check the pipes.
lol
Happy Holidays,
Gman
"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
----- Original Message -----
From: "tempting2taanzaa" <tempting2taanzaa@xxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 9:27 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Windows XP BSOD When Attempting Wireless Network
> Ok, I opened network connections and opened the LAN properties, but my LAN
> was disabled. Should it be enabled? And just trying out something, I
> checked the "allow other network users to connect through this computer's
> internet connection." Don't know exactly what that means. Should it be
> checked? Just to see what happened, I tried disabling the wireless
> adapter,
> and the infamous BSOD occurred. Here's other information that might be
> pertinent (or not). The laptop did not have an internal wireless adapter,
> so I used the adapter that came with the router (it fits in the PCMCIA
> slot). Included was software to manage the wireless adapter. I installed
> the software, but later opted to have Windows manage my wireless adapter.
> Could this software be causing conflict? I don't know if the software has
> an actual name, it just had "Linksys Wireless-G Notebook Adapter."
> However,
> it is currently not running. The blue screens appear to happen when I
> attempt to repair a wireless connection or if I attempt to disable the
> wireless adapter. After the blue screen (I attempted to disable the
> wireless
> adapter as a test) I looked in event viewer and noted the following error
> message:
>
> The DHCP allocator has detected a DHCP server with IP address 192.168.15.1
> on the same network as the interface with IP address 192.168.0.1. The
> allocator has disabled itself on the interface in order to avoid confusing
> DHCP clients.
>
> I followed the link to the Help and Support Center, but no information was
> displayed.
>
> I hope this information is helping!
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