Furthermore, for the computers that don't work, they worked the last time I was home (a couple months ago) with all of the firewall settings up.Īnd no, they aren't getting IPs. But what's odd is that the computer that works has firewalls and it works just fine. On my Laptop I removed the big firewall, but, there's still some Anti-Virus stuff and possibly some built in XP firewalls I could check.
If you know of any other firewalls built into 7 that I might check, please do let me know. I turned off Windows Defender (this was after it stopped working, I did it to remove any possible firewalls, so it being off is NOT the issue), and uninstalled any programs that I knew of that might be a firewall. On the Windows 7 machine (Desktop) there should be no firewalls up that I know about. Finally, I opened the machine up and did a hard reset on the motherboard by disconnecting it from the power supply. I tried updating the ethernet drivers using the other computer that worked to download them, that didn't do anything (I had previously tried uninstalling and reinstalling the current drivers). So I moved my entire operation downstairs and tried hooking the Desktop up directly to the Router but it didn't work. I took the cable from the computer that was working and used it on the Desktop and the Laptop, it didn't work. Short of actually seeing what's going on on the machine, I' m not sure where else to go with it. Normally I don't use the wizard to do the configuration, but in this case it might actually help. If that doesn't work, maybe going thru the network setup again using the wizard (varies depending on which OS we're talking here) might trip the setting that's giving you grief. can you turn OFF the wireless connection before you connect via the ethernet cable? Can't imagine that's doing anything, but easy enough to try. But perhaps it's interface specific in this case. I would have thought the firewall would already be configured to allow the 192.168.1.x network in as a trusted network. I suspect we're dealing with a firewall block on the client PC. Having gone thru a variety of configuration tests on the modem/switch and confirming other computers on the switch aren't having issues. the "limited connectivity" message, that would imply the network card is seeing link, but not getting a DHCP to succeed.
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