The machine has been connecting fine, then one day it decides not to anymore. All other machines, wired or wireless, are fine. It is a secure network. Win 7 Pro, fully up to date.
I can't open Networking and Sharing. It doesn't matter where i try to open it from. The icon on the toolbar bottom right shows a little blue dot, and when you hover the pointer, it won't pop up that it has "no internet". I can't see any other machines on the network, but i can see and write to my nas drive, but only if i select it from "My Computer", where it shows up as a mapped drive. If I select "network" from file manager, it just trundles away, moves the bar across the top, but never opens the network, never even gives an error message. Occasionally i get an error message that says "server busy" and states that i must return to the current operation. I can't close this, my only choices being "switch" and "retry". If, after attempting to open "network and sharing", i open task manager, I see it there running, and can close it, same with that error msg, its the only way i can make it go away.
I've never run into something quite like this before. The machine appears to work normally otherwise. Can run a non-connected game, write a document, whatever. The only other thing that happened at the same time: when i first noted the issue, I rebooted the machine, only to get "can't find boot manager, press whatever to restart" I solved this by pulling out the readyboot stick. After rebooting, I reinserted the stick and its worked fine ever since, without any changes to it. Very curious indeed!
I"m grateful for any input, thank you. zz03
I can't open Networking and Sharing. It doesn't matter where i try to open it from. The icon on the toolbar bottom right shows a little blue dot, and when you hover the pointer, it won't pop up that it has "no internet". I can't see any other machines on the network, but i can see and write to my nas drive, but only if i select it from "My Computer", where it shows up as a mapped drive. If I select "network" from file manager, it just trundles away, moves the bar across the top, but never opens the network, never even gives an error message. Occasionally i get an error message that says "server busy" and states that i must return to the current operation. I can't close this, my only choices being "switch" and "retry". If, after attempting to open "network and sharing", i open task manager, I see it there running, and can close it, same with that error msg, its the only way i can make it go away.
I've never run into something quite like this before. The machine appears to work normally otherwise. Can run a non-connected game, write a document, whatever. The only other thing that happened at the same time: when i first noted the issue, I rebooted the machine, only to get "can't find boot manager, press whatever to restart" I solved this by pulling out the readyboot stick. After rebooting, I reinserted the stick and its worked fine ever since, without any changes to it. Very curious indeed!
I"m grateful for any input, thank you. zz03
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