Win2000pro - preparing network connections hangs - services.exe

-TangleFoot-

slushpuppy wrote: »

DO YOU HAVE THE FULL WIRELESS SOFTWARE INSTALLED OR JUST THE DRIVER?

Would the card actually function without that software? This is Windows 2000 we're talking about, after all!

-TangleFoot-

slushpuppy wrote: »

Win2000 should be Ok with just the driver

I'm not so sure... remember when Windows XP lacked its own Bluetooth stack?

squeaky

Well I can tell you all that it DOESN'T.

Well actually it "might" BUT...

After uninstalling the card software (using revo so I know there's no crud left behind) windows on a restart duly found the new device.

However, it point blank refused to "find" the driver.

Even when I pointed it DIRECTLY to the folder on the CD drive it still point blank refused to "find" it.

So I re-installed it as per the manufacturer's instructions - and here I am back again

But I DID LEARN SOMETHING USEFUL from all this.

I DO NOT NEED A LOCAL AREA CONNECTION.

Honest The WAN stuff supplied deals with it all. So I guess I'm not risking the same connection from two different places tripping over each other.

AND... clicking on "my network" doesn't kick the card off line.

And yet the preparing networks connection STILL hangs and the SCM still only tells me that:

The DNS Client service hung on starting.

..with no further information because this all starts BEFORE the event logger starts to run.

<sigh>

squeaky

slushpuppy wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl: ARE YOU LISTENING HELLO, IM GONNA MARK THIS THREAD AS SPAM IN A MINUTE

DO YOU HAVE THE FULL WIRELESS SOFTWARE INSTALLED OR JUST THE DRIVER?

AND AS TANGLEFOOT MENTIONS AND AS SO HAVE I USE UBCD TO FORMAT THE PC EVEN BEFORE YOU GET THE DISC, YOUR GOING TO FORMAT IT ANYWAY WHEN YOU GET THE WIN200 DISC.

JESUS H CORBETT :rolleyes:

:rotfl:

Full software because I can't get it to install without.

You want me to format the disc RIGHT NOW?

squeaky

slushpuppy wrote: »

read above post.



why not as your going to have to do it anyway, and it will save the useage of anymore headache pills, lol.

<sigh>

NOT until I HAVE a disk, and necessarily even then until I find out WHY I have this problem.

As I've said, the laptop works just fine now - with the sole exception of this hang during startup.

squeaky

slushpuppy wrote: »

Have you thought about getting a newer driver version for the wireless card? and making sure its unoacked before device driver searching.

Via device manager and windows update service, yes. Nothing newer available.

I don't have any handy device manager search&install stuff on this thing.

download.cnet have several listed but none of the downloads I've tried so far have worked, as downloads, that is. It's either file not found or a redirect to gawd only know where.

-TangleFoot-

I don't suppose this is of any use to you?

squeaky

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

I don't suppose this is of any use to you?

Thanks. It certainly will be helpful, for all sorts of things, but unfortunately not for the card that I have.

-TangleFoot-

Any idea where the other posts went?

squeaky

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Any idea where the other posts went?

Eh?

Oh!

Looks as though either the Board Guide decided he was trolling or somebody reported him. Can't find him on the member's list now either.

Anyway, among the gems on that page were an updated bios, battery management (which I need for the other one) AND... joy of joys... a diagnostic utility!

I'm also clearly going to need to enable the boot logger because the SCM thing happens before the event logger starts.

So.... I may be gone some time!