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Win2k Pro: Everything is working fine except I cannot ping anything or play LAN games... HELP!

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Nighthawk69

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Hi there,

I just setup another computer in my home that has a fresh install of Windows 2000 Professional and it is on my wireless network and everything to do with 'net access and access to the fileserver is working perfectly on that machine except for one problem: it will not ping anything on the LAN and LAN games consequently will not work. The ping error message says, "Transmit failed. Error code 65." Does anyone have any ideas why this may be happening? I've never seen this before...

Any help is much appreciated! Thanks! 😀
 
Your router or firewall (be it software based or physical hardware) is probably blocking ICMP ping traffic. Check your firewall logs.

You probably gotter too tight for LAN fun.
 
Thanks for your reply.

The thing is, the other computers in the network can ping the router and all other computers just fine, it's this individual system that isn't working correctly. It won't ping ANYTHING, whether it be on the LAN or on the Internet. It's really wierd! And, consequently, as I said before, I cannot play LAN games with that system whereas the other systems on the LAN are perfectly fine.

Anymore suggestions!?

Thanks! 😀
 
-If available, try another network card.
-Look for updated drivers for the NIC.
-All Service Packs and the appropriate OS updates downloaded from MS?
-If there was one there, did you download the network card driver from MS via WindowsUpdate? If so, remove it, cause problems have arose from MS drivers.

Give those a go.


Good luck!
 
1. Not available.
2. Latest are on there--I use those same drivers on 3 other computers.
3. Yes, SP2.
4. No, I don't use Microsoft Update. 🙂

Anything else?
 
Thanks for the tip on that knowledge base question, guys! That gave me an idea. I remembered that I had put ZoneAlarm Pro on there but had removed it from the startup folder so it wouldn't start with the computer anymore. Well, I forgot that the puter was now on 2k and that ZAP has services that were still loading, and they were obviously blocking everything then. I uninstalled ZAP completely and now it works perfect! Thanks guys, I really appreciate your help!!!!
 
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