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    Driver troubles....

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by smallfry2, Dec 19, 2008.

  1. smallfry2

    smallfry2 Newbie

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    I have a Vaio, FS980. I had a problem with the wifi a few months ago, and took it in for service. The laptop said I was connected but wouldn't load anything. "Page can not be displayed" was all it would do, even though I had a strong connection. (It would send packets but not receive them.) It worked fine with an ethernet cable. The techs took 5 minutes to fix it and said I had a corrupted driver. I want to know how to fix this myself this time, especially if this is going to happen often! The driver we found and downloaded didn't fix the problem. Does anyone have any advice or help? Is there something else I need besides a driver to fix a corrupted driver? Thank so much in advance!
     
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    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Actually, I think what the "tech" may have meant to say was that you had a corrupted TCP/IP stack.

    What OS are you running - XP or _Vista?

    Just in case it's XP, Microsoft has a guide to resetting the TCP/IP stack published as KB299357.

    There's also a webpage that covers _Vista as well here.
     
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