Problem with Network Connection program freezing - HELP

[The Mailman]

not sure if this is the right forum, its a Windows problem so i guess this is right

anyway, im having this problem:

im finding myself suddenly disconnected from the internet. ill hover my mouse over the NETWORK CONNECTION icon in the taskbar and itll say im connected when i know im not. ill click on it and get no response. its frozen.
ill then try to get into Network Places but thats now frozen too. this seems to only happen when im running off my laptop battery. the only fix now is rebooting....over and over and over since it just keeps coming back.

anyone know the name of the program that runs the connections? so i can at least end the program and try to restart it in windows rather than the entire OS?

also, if it helps, the battery program seems to be freezing at the same time.

 

[SultanEmerr]

Home or Pro?

SP1 or2?

 

[Smilin]

There are quite a few components involved in that. No practical way to shutdown/restart any single thing.

Try running in safemode with networking, see if you get the same behavior.

Find bios update for mobo and driver update for NIC.

yank out any 3rd party firewalls, network monitoring tools, VPN clients.

 

[The Mailman]

Originally posted by: SultanEmerr
Home or Pro?

SP1 or2?

pro SP2

no 3rd party firewalls active

i was fooling around with it last night and it was weird. i was able to get in to see my network connections after the freeze. my wireless connection was set to disabled and it wouldnt let me set it to enabled. just kept telling me "connection failed!" and itd stay disabled
wtf

 

[nova2]

"my wireless connection was set to disabled and it wouldnt let me set it to enabled. just kept telling me "connection failed!" and itd stay disabled "

i've had something similar happen before, but it was after resuming from hibernating winxp. (rebooting fixed the problem)

perhaps you should uninstall and reinstall your wifi hardware.