Hi, it's me again..

 

 

 

Here's the new problem, I can now connect to the internet, I'm currently downloading the SP3 .iso file, and you know why? Microsoft updates fail, 99/99 updates failed several times, I have tried different ways, and hope that the .iso file will work.

 

 

 

I have a question with the .iso file though, do I need to put it on a cd?

 

 

 

 

 

[hide=]My desktop can't connect to the internet, since for some reaseon, when I'm in the command prompt doing the ipconfig, it says "Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : no-domain-set.aliant", aliant being the ISP. I tell you now, I,m on the laptop using the same modem the desktop uses, and I have no problems going on the internet.

 

 

 

Anyway, a few things I have tried are the powercycling, then releasing the ip from the desktop and turning all off (unpluging the modem), and nothing changes when I go back to cmd and look at it...

 

 

 

Sorry if my english is bad, I'm quite tired and english is not my first language.

 

 

 

If you need the specs, I'll give them, and being tired, there's somethings I might've not thought about that are quite simple reasons it could be like that.[/hide]

 

 

 

Thanks in advance for those that will help me.

Update to what I have tried, I'll say even if it's in the first list:

 

 

 

- Powercycling

 

- Flushdns

 

- ipconfig /release then /renew (note: there is nothing written as default gateway).

 

- restoring to an earlier date (it did speed up the computer though).

 

- scans, but Kaspersky, Ad-Aware, and Spybot Search & Destroy didn't find anything.

 

 

 

Then I've been doing troubleshooting with the ISP. Turns out when I try to ping the router/modem (since it's the same, in my case a siemens speedstream 6520), I get the error code 65.

 

 

 

Please anyone if you can help me, I don't want to bring the computer to a repair shop.

 

 

 

Oh, and I also tried to install ZoneAlarm, which failed at 22% each time.

I hate to say it, but if you can't install ZoneAlarm, you have two possible problems...

1. [*:ur4tdve8]Your TCP/IP Stack is "borked"... :cry:
    
   or
    
   [*:ur4tdve8]You have a super-nasty virus (or just simply damaged DLLs) that has killed your net link forever and is beyond the limits of what your security packages can handle.

... and either way, you're looking at a total Windows OS Re-Install. You had better back up your personal data, and hope the virus (again, IF you have one) doesn't hide in it. :(

 

 

 

~D. V. "The Note Of Doom" Devnull

Hmm, I'd like someone else to confirm this before I go and reinstall.

 

 

 

But, Devnull, if it's the first option, how can I check it?

 

 

 

I know that reseting the winsock didn't work either.

I am not going to confirm it because i don't know. Think about ti though, by the time your reinstall the os and put all your stuff back on it. You still might not have found a fix.

There, updated my backup (was a week old).

 

 

 

I'll be reinstalling tomorrow.

Updated the first post with the new problem :wall:

Updated the first post with the new problem :wall:

 

 

 

This happened to me when i first re-installed my OS, how may i ask do you connect to the internet?

I have a constant connection to it, I connect using a modem that is a router at the same time.

 

 

 

Oh, and the updates have no problems downloading, it's the install that fails.

Make sure your time is set correctly. I know that set windows updates off.

sbrideau, yes, you'll need to burn the '.iso' to a CD, as to set up for the install. Good luck to you. :geek:

 

 

 

~D. V. Devnull

Nop, I put the time at the exact same time it is on the laptop, and it didn't help.

 

 

 

Although I see something weird, my computer says it's Media Center Edition 2002, but the updates are for Media Center Edition 2005, which I used to see in my computer properties...

 

 

 

@ Devnull, I will be doing this when I get a CD -_- lol.

 

 

 

Edit: Burning it.

Problem is solved, installing the SP3 from the CD did it, I'm now able to download and install correctly the updates.

 

 

 

Btw I'm posting this from the desktop :

 

 

 

thank you guys for helping me :).