Where the “oy” have weird little French double dot things on the top of them. You can still ping by IP address but DNS and a whole lot of other stuff is poked.
Even a repair install didn’t fix this! I was beside myself until uncovering a little documented command.
netsh winsock reset
and then reboot the computer.
Fixed it up a treat. Apparently viruses and the removal of program’s like Norton’s and CA Anti virus can cause corruption in the winsock components of XP and the result is busted networking. Running this command will reset the whole winsock subsystem.
Another handy one that has helped me out in a few situations like this is netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt Do it from a command line and have a look at the log, it does lots of cool stuff that can fix a huge amount of problems with windows networking.
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To John,
OMG…thank you for posting this…I was trying everything. Found some good info on the Microsoft experts site but no fix. This little command fixed the issue in less time that it took me to type this comment. Thanks agian.
“netsh winsock resetâ€
Thank you so much for posting this! Wouldn’t it be nice if my initial searches had let me to that on M$ site. I had the same issue as listed, after uninstalling an anti-virus program and Windows greeted me with this issue.
Thanks!!!
You are the man! Holy-moly I tried everything to figure out what the heck was going on! Even went so far as to buy a new wireless access point thinking it was something busted with my hardware! You totally saved me!
Thank you thank you thank you!!!
-Edward
I encountered this wierd ping problem with (oy) two days back.Same symptons as documented above, no network connectivity. Before I got this link I tried all otherways unintsalling/installing network drivers, protocol, XP xhexkpoint restore, repair but all these method didn’t work.
Thank you very much for posting this magic command “netsh winsock reset”
Regards /Thanga
Thank you very much…because of you i can fix my network connection…
You are a god!
I love you! This may have saved my relationship!
YAAAAHOOOOOO!
This was driving me bonkers!! I had an older PC where I had to remove a busted version of McAfee. Iin my case, McAfee would not uninstall using Add/Remove Programs, so I had to use the MCPR2.EXE tool found on McAfee’s support site… it removes the McAfee Security Suite program(s), and registry entries, but it breaks the winsock components, which broke the network settings. The TICKET to knowing this (corrupted winsock) is the issue is the french? looking ‘oy’ symbol when you try to ping something.. Thank GOD I found this page. Oddly, I saw various web postings regarding a ‘corrupted winsock’, but none referenced the ‘oy’ with the two dots above the y. Thanks a mill. Hope this helps others.
Correction on above – Where it says “which broke the network settings”… that should say “which broke the network connectivity.” I don’t think any of the network settings on the card are altered… just the winsock.
OMFG – U legend -
u should work for Microsoft except they would slow u down
thanks for posting
EXCELLENT. YOU ARE THE MAN.
I have been working on this issue for about 7 hours and that command fixed all my problems. Thanks!!!
This has saved me so much grief. Thought a complete reformat was the only answer. Thanks again.
Thanks I’m halfway there now if I can just get it to renew the ip address!!
I assume you have tried :
ipconfig /release *
ipconfiog /renew *
Cheers, John.
ipconfig /renew * even.
Thanks man. I have seen this once before and could not remember. 2 machines in a buiness network and I had been treading water for 2 hours… thanks for your post.
Impressive piece of knowledge you pulled out of your @#!.
Your the man.
Brilliant. Thank you very much!
Frank, amazing it worked… Searched a full night to find the solution and was happy I found it on your internet site.
Thnx
Your a legand thanks
Thank you very much. Much appreciated.
much appreciated
thanks!
good job….you are a genius man…
i love this site. for two week i was stuggling with this issue. once found your site, it took only less then second. good on you.
<3
I love you
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
thanks a bundle, this worked a treat.
Man – thanks so much for this. I was just about to blow away a laptop before this.
I wish this was easier to find. But luckiy it was! just need to remember to share this on the other sites!
Thanks, your a life saver!
i love u u r god
Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks
you rock!!!!
Thanks man. Great job posting this here !
Saved the day, thank you!
Well done indeed, tried all sorts!
Was nearly the last time I fix someone elses computer until I googled and found this, thanks again!
Thank you, Thank you, 1000 times!
I too, was 1 minute away from blowing this laptop, after spending 4 hours of troubleshooting when I found this fix.
Thanks!
Worked great thanks!
Hi, everyone.
I am having trouble with connecting a PC to my home network. I have two other PCs connected to a router via DHCP, and they work fine. I’ve tried to connect a third PC with an onboard RTL8139 network adapter, and it just won’t work. I get a “limited or no connectivity” error.
It tries to connect to the network, but for some reason it can’t find a proper IP, subnet mask and DNS, as they’re configured in the router. I’ve tried manually setting those to the correct values, and Windows says I’m connected to the network, while pinging it gives the oy message with replies, but doesnt work. tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers for realtek adapter, netsh winsock reset, netsh int ip reset reset.log, nothing worked, any suggestions?
Vishnu