Stupid Internet

[Apache Warrior]

My son's computer is connected to the Internet. I can ping anything except local. Games, Ventrilo, IM. Steam all work. IE and FF will not work. They can not connect. Any suggestions. This time of the year I am extremely busy and have little time to research problems.
Apache

[Ghost_Rain]

You could try rest the router may work.

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windows firewall=off
put his router on a dmz so all ports are open and put a personal firewall on his computer, a little risky but would take the router out of the picture to see if it's the problem.
re-install FF or restore back to the day before it quit working.

[Apache Warrior]

He is on the same modem/router I am. And he just tried to boot up and now Windows will not boot. Even in Safe Mode. Looks like something is corrupted. Time to reinstall Windows.
Apache

[mapes]

Re: Stupid Internet

My son's computer is connected to the Internet. I can ping anything except local. Games, Ventrilo, IM. Steam all work. IE and FF will not work. They can not connect. Any suggestions. This time of the year I am extremely busy and have little time to research problems.
Apache

If you can ping out by IP addy but web browse my guess is it's DNS settings.

[Apache Warrior]

This is turning ugly. After installing Windows it reboots and starts the install process all over again. If I try to boot with out the CD it will not. I am thinking that the HD may be bad.
Apache

[imlittlev]

Re: Stupid Internet

My son's computer is connected to the Internet. I can ping anything except local. Games, Ventrilo, IM. Steam all work. IE and FF will not work. They can not connect. Any suggestions. This time of the year I am extremely busy and have little time to research problems.
Apache

If you can ping out by IP addy but web browse my guess is it's DNS settings.

ya rly, i had a DNS problem, had similar issues (steam, vent, etc working, mozilla not)

[mapes]

This is turning ugly. After installing Windows it reboots and starts the install process all over again. If I try to boot with out the CD it will not. I am thinking that the HD may be bad.
Apache

you might wanna check your cables and reset the Bios. Thats the only other thing I can think off.

[Apache Warrior]

I ran chkdsk from the Recovery Console and it reported several unrepairable problems.
Apache

[darth_nevus]

I ran chkdsk from the Recovery Console and it reported several unrepairable problems.
Apache

sounds like its dead/dying. my last 2 maxtor hd's i ever bought & will buy again died this VERY same way.

the giveaway was the dead secotors kept changing. once they were marked out, and you ran it again, a whole new slew of them appeared.

finally, it just puked...

[imlittlev]

if anyone remembers, i had hard drive problems... my maxtor died. perhaps nevus can recall.

[darth_nevus]

oh, i can recal. to this day i won't buy another maxtor. that was part of my b**** fest about maxtors. yea. i hate them THAT much.

[juneau]

oh, i can recal. to this day i won't buy another maxtor. that was part of my b**** fest about maxtors. yea. i hate them THAT much.

I won't either. My only dead HDD's are Maxtors. I still have a bunch of 750mb-10gb Seagates and WD's that are in perfect working order.

[mapes]

oh, i can recal. to this day i won't buy another maxtor. that was part of my b**** fest about maxtors. yea. i hate them THAT much.

I won't either. My only dead HDD's are Maxtors. I still have a bunch of 750mb-10gb Seagates and WD's that are in perfect working order.

Used be years ago that WD's were bad. Then the IBM Deskstars started dying as well. I've never own maxtors...so I can't comment.

[WalkinTarget]

I've owned so many drives that they were ALL bad at one time !!

You name it, I've had it go bad. Lets list them as I remember:

Western Digital 80GB 8mb cache Special Editions - 3 of them, all RMA'd*

Maxtor 160 GB 8mb - only one, but its on my wife's PC where all the data is important. The 160's are Maxtors poorest HD effort to date.

Seagate - 40GB 2mb cache - Had a run of these at work that we bought new go bad, so with 250+ PCs, 75 of the Seagates went bad over the summer during our setup.

IMB Death, errr DESKStar 20GB - these are the oldest, but were the first drives to be soundly vilified and cursed by the PC community. Can't remember if a class action suite was filed, but it very well could have been !

* - note on the WD 80GB drives. I've had better luck with the RMA drives returned from WD. In fact, I built a PC for my Father-in-law last weekend using an Abit KG7-RAID board with an AMD 2000+ CPU with two of the WD 80GB drives set up in a hardware RAID 0/1 config, and at this point they are near as I can figure about 6.5 years old !!
This upgraded him from his P3/700 box that I built two years ago, so he got it as a Christmas gift last night, and he is a happy camper.