Different applications have different troubles with connectivity. In the following I’m going to list some common causes. One top item in the field is LSP. LSP is provided by Winsock as a linked service provider. In Vista, this thing won’t be a serious issue as before since Vista poses more limitation/restrictions which makes LSP not quite “useful” as their XP [...]
The TCP/IP network that most people use today is not really a plug-n-play thing. It needs proper configuration. Typically I follow these steps to figure out if the network configuration is correct or not.
Do I have an IP address?
Do I have a working name service?
Can I reach the machine that I want to connect to?
The most basic [...]
We can roughly classify hardware-related issues into following categories:
heat dissipation issues
cabling and contact issues
equipment hardware failure
People often throw their routers, hubs, switches at the dark corner beneath the desk along with messy cables so that they are hidden from line of sight. If the room is warm, these poor little things have great chances to [...]
Part of my job is to help people troubleshooting network connectivity issues. As you all know, network today is not really a plug-and-play thing, at least not as easy as setting up a toaster. So, when we have a network issue, what or where should we look at? Here are summary of the steps I typically use and I’ll elaborate [...]
FedEx delivered my shiny new XPS 420 yesterday and I was very happy to receive it right before Christmas. My XPS 420 came with a Intel Q6600 quad-core CPU hosted on a Intel X38 based motherboard, plenty of USB ports, two 1394a ports, five sound jacks, SPDIF, and a surprise eSATA port. Dell also included a card reader with bluetooth receiver [...]
Recently I started develop things using Visual Studio 2005 SP1 (a.k.a. VS8 SP1). The biggest change of VS8 is that the CRT library is now deployed in WinSxS so that the DLL hell problem related to CRT could be solved, as suggested in Martyn Lovell’s blog.
As a result, VC linker will auto generate appropriate [...]
During recent vacation time, I tried to resurrect my dead Maxtor HD. I can see it from the BIOS POST screen but I can’t see it in Windows. That makes me pondering. So, I use the TestDrive program inside UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD) and found that the partition table is damaged. After recovering it, my [...]
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