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Weird symbols when pinging

by brianwhiting Nov 25, 2003 7:31AM PST

Yesterday, I was changing my network connections and something really weird happened. I lost all connectivity to the internet and to my network. I tried to ping my router, which works ok, but it has weird symbols where it should have the ip address.

http://www.geocities.com/brianwhiting2002/ping.jpg

The only thing I have found that fixes the problem is a fresh install of XP. Any ideas on what else I might be able to do because this has happened before and it might happen again. It only seems to happen when I change my network connections in some way. Yesterday, I removed a network bridge that I had. A while ago, it happened when I installed the trial version of VMWare, which added some other network connections. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Brian

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Re:Weird symbols when pinging

by sevenupdude23 Nov 25, 2003 7:36AM PST

It might be because your computer has lost its IP address, this happenned to me and happens every now and then. It probably happens because of my Linksys router because I never had the problem before I had a network. You don't have to do a fresh install of XP to fix the problem, I've found that a System Restore to a date when the internet was working fixes the problem. As for your network, reconfiguring the network is the only way to get it working again.

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