Hello,
I have Vista(32) and running a wireless nic on my desktop machine. I'm connecting to a router above my flat (with permission) and have 0 problems until now. My computer was running fine for 3 years until recently my first hard drive starting disappearing. I have 3 hard drives (C, D, and E). My C drive is where my XP install is on, my D drive is where my Vista install is on, and my E drive is all my storage like games etc.
Recently, my sound on my C drive starting causing my games to stutter both graphically and in sound. It was to the point where any sound in windows XP would crack, stutter or screw up. Besides that issue, I tried all that I could to fix it and moved on to my D drive with Vista until I figured it out.
Today, my C drive just disappeared all together. My first impression is that it's going bad obviously. I jumped on my C drive (XP) to check it out and now my C drive wont even load without many restarts. I can only assume the C drive is about to pop and I should try to save as much data as possible before I wipe to reinstall.
Soon after that, my Vista machine starts lagging. It's trying to pull certain files from the C drive which causes it to hang. While moving programs from C to D drives I managed to also drop connection out of the blue. The connection went from working to local only.
Now, I've searching the interwebs high and low. I can find many posts on this issue but none of them seem to relate to my issue. My network is identified. I can see the name and connect to it fine. I don't have Nortons installed because I use Avast. I have no installed anything recently that would affect my network. The only programs I have installed recently was Thunderbird and a Office updates.
I've reinstalled my drivers and played around with the settings. I'm now back to my original default settings and still no go. I've even manually set my settings based on my netbook connected to the same router and still no go. I've also tried roll backs and restores and still nothing. Identified network (home) and local access only.
Now onto the weird part of this issue. I have a netbook that can connect to the same router with basically the same settings just different wireless cards. I use to share my wireless connection on my netbook until I brought a wireness card for my desktop. I did the same, I had full connection on my desktop for 20 minutes until both my desktop and netbook went to local only.
My wife, who also has a netbook was connected fine and could reconnect with the same wireless card as my netbook. It seems whatever I connected to my desktop transcended onto my netbook and gave it the same local only; identified issue.
I got the person above me to restart the router. My netbook went online while connected to my desktop. My desktop remained local only. Soon after, my netbook dropped off again to local only because it was still connected via wired line to my desktop.
*pants*
I don't know what to make of this. I'm backing up my C drive and will wipe my machine and try to go back down to 2 hard drives for a fresh install. Any help on why my issue, the IDENTIFIED network while local access only is still there.
P.S
I did restart winsock and tcp
I have Vista(32) and running a wireless nic on my desktop machine. I'm connecting to a router above my flat (with permission) and have 0 problems until now. My computer was running fine for 3 years until recently my first hard drive starting disappearing. I have 3 hard drives (C, D, and E). My C drive is where my XP install is on, my D drive is where my Vista install is on, and my E drive is all my storage like games etc.
Recently, my sound on my C drive starting causing my games to stutter both graphically and in sound. It was to the point where any sound in windows XP would crack, stutter or screw up. Besides that issue, I tried all that I could to fix it and moved on to my D drive with Vista until I figured it out.
Today, my C drive just disappeared all together. My first impression is that it's going bad obviously. I jumped on my C drive (XP) to check it out and now my C drive wont even load without many restarts. I can only assume the C drive is about to pop and I should try to save as much data as possible before I wipe to reinstall.
Soon after that, my Vista machine starts lagging. It's trying to pull certain files from the C drive which causes it to hang. While moving programs from C to D drives I managed to also drop connection out of the blue. The connection went from working to local only.
Now, I've searching the interwebs high and low. I can find many posts on this issue but none of them seem to relate to my issue. My network is identified. I can see the name and connect to it fine. I don't have Nortons installed because I use Avast. I have no installed anything recently that would affect my network. The only programs I have installed recently was Thunderbird and a Office updates.
I've reinstalled my drivers and played around with the settings. I'm now back to my original default settings and still no go. I've even manually set my settings based on my netbook connected to the same router and still no go. I've also tried roll backs and restores and still nothing. Identified network (home) and local access only.
Now onto the weird part of this issue. I have a netbook that can connect to the same router with basically the same settings just different wireless cards. I use to share my wireless connection on my netbook until I brought a wireness card for my desktop. I did the same, I had full connection on my desktop for 20 minutes until both my desktop and netbook went to local only.
My wife, who also has a netbook was connected fine and could reconnect with the same wireless card as my netbook. It seems whatever I connected to my desktop transcended onto my netbook and gave it the same local only; identified issue.
I got the person above me to restart the router. My netbook went online while connected to my desktop. My desktop remained local only. Soon after, my netbook dropped off again to local only because it was still connected via wired line to my desktop.
*pants*
I don't know what to make of this. I'm backing up my C drive and will wipe my machine and try to go back down to 2 hard drives for a fresh install. Any help on why my issue, the IDENTIFIED network while local access only is still there.
P.S
I did restart winsock and tcp