dbwillis
12-19-2006, 09:03 PM
I just did a job for a small office, replaced two 98 machines with MCE boxes (Dell E521)
-----------------------office / network / pc info-----------------------------------
(3) Win 98 towers (call them Dom, Randy and Dee)
(1) XP Home laptop (call it Laptop)
(1) XP Pro desktop (call it FrontDesk) [guest account enabled]
I replaced Dom and Randy with XP MCE boxes [guest account disabled] (they have the same name as the old boxes)
Front desk has 2 shared folders (Data and QB Data) and 1 shared printer (Okidata Turbo 320)
Laptop has no shared items
Dee has no shared items
Dom has 1 shared printer (HP 3380 laserjet / USB)
Randy has no shared items
The whole network has NO internet connection, no router, its all manual IP's
Previously Dom and Randy were 10.10.10.2 (Dom) and .3 (Randy)
The new PC's are .20 and .30
- all subnets are set to 255.255.255.0
Connected all the shares from Randy and Dom to the frontdesk, setup quickbooks to point to QB Data and there oil and gas app to point to Data)
- everything works
Setup the Laptop and frontdesk and Dee to point to the new IP of the HP 3380 printer
- everything works
Fast forward a week later...Doms PC cant access shares, others cant print tothe HP 3380
- found the LAN (Broadcom 440x) was disabled (nothing in event logs as for why)
- had them enable it over the phone, and everythings OK
- week later, same problem
- today (4 days later) same problem again
I checked all the pc's and nothing has any event errors for hardware problems.
Anyone have an idea as to why the network connection turns to disabled?
Im guessing the operator (he is 1/2 owner of the company) is seeing the bubble message when he logs on 'connected at xx mpbs' and may be right clicking on it and choosing disable..thinking its disabling the pop up.
I thought about making him a power user or reg user, but then Id get calls every day when he cant add a program or do this or that, hes paying, so he gets what he wants :o) although Im not sure if it wouldnt get disabled if he was a reg user, might just be harder to enable it.
Tomorrow AM Im going to try removing the onboard nic and redetecting it and installing the drivers again.
Next step if it happens again would be popping in a PCI nic card.
Anyone have any VBS or BAT files that can disable/enable the NIC card? maybe Ill schedule it to run every 15 min.
Last resort is to rebuild the machine, but I really dont want to do that.
Anyone got any ideas ?
-----------------------office / network / pc info-----------------------------------
(3) Win 98 towers (call them Dom, Randy and Dee)
(1) XP Home laptop (call it Laptop)
(1) XP Pro desktop (call it FrontDesk) [guest account enabled]
I replaced Dom and Randy with XP MCE boxes [guest account disabled] (they have the same name as the old boxes)
Front desk has 2 shared folders (Data and QB Data) and 1 shared printer (Okidata Turbo 320)
Laptop has no shared items
Dee has no shared items
Dom has 1 shared printer (HP 3380 laserjet / USB)
Randy has no shared items
The whole network has NO internet connection, no router, its all manual IP's
Previously Dom and Randy were 10.10.10.2 (Dom) and .3 (Randy)
The new PC's are .20 and .30
- all subnets are set to 255.255.255.0
Connected all the shares from Randy and Dom to the frontdesk, setup quickbooks to point to QB Data and there oil and gas app to point to Data)
- everything works
Setup the Laptop and frontdesk and Dee to point to the new IP of the HP 3380 printer
- everything works
Fast forward a week later...Doms PC cant access shares, others cant print tothe HP 3380
- found the LAN (Broadcom 440x) was disabled (nothing in event logs as for why)
- had them enable it over the phone, and everythings OK
- week later, same problem
- today (4 days later) same problem again
I checked all the pc's and nothing has any event errors for hardware problems.
Anyone have an idea as to why the network connection turns to disabled?
Im guessing the operator (he is 1/2 owner of the company) is seeing the bubble message when he logs on 'connected at xx mpbs' and may be right clicking on it and choosing disable..thinking its disabling the pop up.
I thought about making him a power user or reg user, but then Id get calls every day when he cant add a program or do this or that, hes paying, so he gets what he wants :o) although Im not sure if it wouldnt get disabled if he was a reg user, might just be harder to enable it.
Tomorrow AM Im going to try removing the onboard nic and redetecting it and installing the drivers again.
Next step if it happens again would be popping in a PCI nic card.
Anyone have any VBS or BAT files that can disable/enable the NIC card? maybe Ill schedule it to run every 15 min.
Last resort is to rebuild the machine, but I really dont want to do that.
Anyone got any ideas ?