Win2K Networking Problem

[MaxPipeline]

Hi all

I'm having a strange issue with my network connection. For some reason, when I reboot, I loose the ability to route. I can ping my IP address for the NIC. But when I try to ping my gateway, it times out. I have tried everything I could think of to resolve this. The only thing that works is to uninstall TCP/IP, reboot, then reinstall TCP/IP. Then I input my static IP, gateway and DNS info, etc. I can then ping my gateway, and the Internet (i.e. ping yahoo.com works fine). But as soon as I reboot again, same thing happens. I can no longer ping my gateway. I have to basically uninstall TCP/IP before I shut down my PC for the night. Then reinstall when I turn on my PC again te next morning. Royal PITA.

This used to work just fine before. I didn't change anything that I could think of that could have caused this. Here's my system info:

Compaq Deskpro EN series. PII 400MHz. 128MB RAM. Compaq NC3121 Fast Ethernet NIC. Win2K Pro fully up-to-date (auto updated).

I also tried uninstalling/reinstalling the NIC and the Winsock fix I read in another thread. Any ideas?

 

[dimos16]

What connection type do you have? ADSL,Cable,Dial-up,.etc.?

 

[NTesla]

If you have repeatedly uninstalled TCP/IP and reinstalleded. Then try another NIC. Sounds like a bad NIC to me.

 

[MaxPipeline]

Thanks for the responses.

dimos16, connecting via Enet to office lan with T1 connection. Not that it really matters. When this happens, I cannot even ping outside of my own NIC card. Hence I cannot ping my default gateway. NTesla, it is possible I may have a bad NIC card. It just seems odd that it works and all after uninstalling and reinstalling TCP/IP. This tells me it may be a Win2K issue, but again, I have not tried replacing the NIC yet. I will try replacing my NIC and see what happens. Anyone else have any ideas?