It must be a sign of my age or something like that, because yesterday was the first time for a long time that I’ve not been able to solve a problem with windows! I was trying to fix a computer for a relative, what you would expect to be a simple problem that it was unable to connect to the internet. After booting it up the problem was easy to spot, something had got corrupt with the DHCP client that was running on the machine. Now suchly this must be an easy think to fix I was thinking….
After doing all the things I could think of I turned to the old friend google. Searching for the error message that ipconfig returned I got hundreds and thousands of hits, sounds positive I thought. So after reading a number they were all pointing to it being the TCPIP stack had become corrupt (now maybe I’m mad or something but how on earth can the IP stack become corrupt! anyway…). So after running through the netsh commands that are within Windows XP SP2 I rebooted. Thinking that was an easy job now where is the beer, sadly I was mistaken up came the computer still not working. Ok I thought maybe there is another magic command to run that I could reset the ip stack or even better just reinstall the TCPIP Protocol.
Well after about an hour of trying a number of different “solutions” I gave in, I had a spare network card and through well maybe just putting in another card would spring it into life. So I unscrewed the case and got the network card installed and rebooted thinking job done… again I had failed the same error message was returned by windows. I spent another fustrating hour trying to fix the problem but to no avail.
It looks like another windows reinstall which seems abit over the top to what appears on the outset to be such a simple problem.
There are days where sometimes I hate computers.
A really great review from the register of the last decade or is it the last decade! Anyway a great read about how things have changed in the world of technology. How the mighty have fallen and the once little start-up seems to be taking over the internet.
Well its taken me almost 6 months but I’ve finally found a flaw in my lovely iPhone! With all the “cold weather” that has hit the UK I’ve been having to wear gloves when being outside (understandably) unfortunately the iPhone does not work when wearing gloves. So the screen on an iPhone works by noticing the change in electrical current when my finger touchs the screen. Doing a quick google confirms that this is indeed how it works! http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/iphone1.htm.
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