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Hello All !
I have been tiring to figure this one out for 2 days. I have 2 computers on my network and until recently everything worked fine. Now although I can see both computers in my work group I can only access on. I turned off all firewalls and removed all Antivirus programs and started pinging. I also have 2 routers 1 is a gateway and the other is working as a switch. So from computer A (the Problem Comp) I can ping my other PC as well as both routers and “localhost” . From computer B I can ping both routers “localhost” but not computer A. I then pinged from the gateway router to PC-B but could not ping PC-A (Connected Directly). Is this telling me my hardware is bad ? I find it hard to believe the NIC card works in every aspect but incoming requests. I am going to try a new card but I thought I would reach out and see if anyone ells had experienced the same symptoms. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thank !!!
I have been tiring to figure this one out for 2 days. I have 2 computers on my network and until recently everything worked fine. Now although I can see both computers in my work group I can only access on. I turned off all firewalls and removed all Antivirus programs and started pinging. I also have 2 routers 1 is a gateway and the other is working as a switch. So from computer A (the Problem Comp) I can ping my other PC as well as both routers and “localhost” . From computer B I can ping both routers “localhost” but not computer A. I then pinged from the gateway router to PC-B but could not ping PC-A (Connected Directly). Is this telling me my hardware is bad ? I find it hard to believe the NIC card works in every aspect but incoming requests. I am going to try a new card but I thought I would reach out and see if anyone ells had experienced the same symptoms. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thank !!!
jmwills
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May 27th, 2006 04:00
bkbroil19
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May 27th, 2006 12:00
I have it fixed and I think I know what the issue was but maybe a Dell person could confirm or deny. After going crazy and tiring a new card I decided to start from scratch so I cloned my C drive then formatted and reinstalled Windows. Now with a clean install I setup my network using the new NIC and presto it worked. I could share files and ping both computers. In my excitement I went to town installing windows updates and all the Dell drivers and utilities. Just as quick as it started working it stopped ! So I reinstalled again but this time I installed the Dell software 1 at a time. (usually I would suspect Windows but not this time) As I was going through each driver and utility (install, reboot, test) I came across a chipset driver labeled “Broadcom Trusted Platform Module” now being a chipset driver I would normally just install it without reading about it. Well after reading about the install it needs to be setup after install and configured which I never did. Anyway I installed the rest of the drivers and then eventually all the Windows updates and it is still working. So it looks like that driver maybe closes some ports or something I don’t know. I think maybe one day when I was board I was crazing the Dell site for updated drivers and may have installed it. I only noticed the issue when I tried to transfer some files. I could just be crazy but all I know is it is working again.
Thanks for the reply