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I have a number of XP machines that have suddenly stopped connecting to the
network. The symptoms are that the PC takes a long time booting up and then
takes even longer to log on. A lot of the services do not start and I
cannot access the services.msc to check them, it comes up blank. No ip
address is received from the DHCP server although it gets the DNS and DHCP
server address. I cannot access system properties to check the hardware.
The machines are on different floors so connect through different switches.
I believe it to be a DNS problem, but not sure why. If I make a static entry
on the host file it connects properly and all the services run. Does anybody
have any ideas as to why this is happening and only to the newer machines on
the network?
thanks,
network. The symptoms are that the PC takes a long time booting up and then
takes even longer to log on. A lot of the services do not start and I
cannot access the services.msc to check them, it comes up blank. No ip
address is received from the DHCP server although it gets the DNS and DHCP
server address. I cannot access system properties to check the hardware.
The machines are on different floors so connect through different switches.
I believe it to be a DNS problem, but not sure why. If I make a static entry
on the host file it connects properly and all the services run. Does anybody
have any ideas as to why this is happening and only to the newer machines on
the network?
thanks,