Windows 7 limited connectivity issue

View solution in original post. You rock! Its been 15 minutes, and looks like, wireless limited access issue is fixed. Let me observe it for some more time, and give you a feedback accordingly.

Glad you got it working! If you need more assistance, please post back. Rockstar, Everything works great now and credit goes to you. Thank you very much. Now, secondly, I'd like to have few doubts cleared from my mind, and they're mentioned below -.

Can you clarify that as well to me please? I'm working in Qatar and want to know whether I can get the Invoice or any references downloaded under my name for future reference if I happened to come across any situation that may require my laptop to fix? So, if I want to partition like GB to C: drive where I can keep only system files, and rest GB for the D: drive, where i can keep my personal data, can you help me with the complete instructions on doing it and with few screen snapshots as you did in your previous post?

So, based on this info, please could you clarify these three queries for me, would be highly appreciated. Go to Dell Warranty Status enter your service tag number, click on system configuration.

It shows what was installed on this system from the factory. I have done very little with partitioning. Things to remember, you can only have 4 partitions, one will be a recovery partition, unless it bacame missing or corrupt. If a new hard drive was installed, then there will not be a recovery partition. I used to dual boot and the operating system you're using at the time will show as drive C.

I have seen people using a partiton just for their data, one for the operating system, recovery partition and I think there is also a boot partition. You may want to start a new thread in the Dell Microsoft OS Forum and the members there have more knowledge on this. When you got the second hand computer, did you do a Dell - Ownership Transfers Once this is completed, then after 10 days, you can do this Browse Community.

You should also figure out if your office Wi-Fi connection requires an IP address. You can check this by following these steps:. This tip was originally published on IDG Answers, a reader-powered help desk for answering tech questions. Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more. Membership is free, and your security and privacy remain protected.

View our privacy policy before signing up. I need some help on this one. Everything has worked very well for the past year with no connection problems.

Last week, I clicked on an automatic update for my Norton software upgrade from version 2. The update worked fine and then prompted me to restart.

The restart didn. I am trying to connect directly to an external drive via ethernet cable and experiencing a Limited Connectivity issue. I have even changed cables, trying 8 different ones and problem still exists. Is it supposed to be Limited if plugged directly into the PC, by passing any router?

Do I need to use a cross over cable instead of a straight through? It should be able to connect to it without the use of a router. I have a similar issue. I have a westell wireless router supplied by Verizon DSL. It works fine and has for years. I also have an airlink repeater so I can use my laptop in the back yard. My laptop Winxp sp3 has no problem connecting when in range of the westell router and all works fine. However, when it connects through the airlink I get limited connectivity.

If I disable WEP all is fine, works great. But when I enable WEP it does not. I have reset the passphrase repeatedly on both routers to be sure they matched. Any Idea what may be causing this because I really do not care to run the wireless without security.??? I am having trouble with the wireless network connection on my HP laptop. I tried connecting in several places where others can conect to the internet, and I keep recieving the problem.

Thanks Leo. Your explanation about limited connectivity was very helpful. I am so happy to have found your website. Any insight would be appreciated. Is there another way to update the router firmware? Two lap tops one running XP and the other Vista. Same network and the Vista connection is crap. Have you fix your problem.

BT openzone I have not had any issues previously in accessing this site but over the last couple of days I have not been able to connect with the messages limited connectivity and unable to repair dynamic IP address. Windows Vista is the operating system, any suggestions? Leo Sir, I have desktop computer A with internet connected via Nokia mobile. ICS is enabled on this PC and it works as a host.

PC A has nvidia network adapter installed. Another PC B which is client with Realtek network adapter connects with the host A through cross cable and everything works fine The internet and file sharing with all icons displaying such as network connection. I have tried the following on the third pc C : winsockfix utility, netsh commands, disconnected mobile and restarted after switching it off for 5 minutes.

Third pc C shows no error in terms network card and cross cable and sending packets or frames datagrams but does not receive any from host, likewise host A is also sending but no receiving packets. Tried static ip on client C but to no avail. If someone could help out. Thanks a lot in advance. I have tried everything on the planet but still struggling. A little more detail is that the Think of the Once that computer connects through DHCP the It only happens 1 or 2 a month so not a big deal, just frustrating.

My desktops work fine and they are hardwired to the router. My laptop works fine with a wireless connection. My wife gave her newer laptop to our son and I have upgraded the ram,battery and hard drive in the old Toshiba. It is running a lot better but is giving me the limited connectivity message. I think it might be time to try to update the firmware. I am wondering if the wireless card, or chip or however they do it on the laptop is bad.

Of course maybe a fw upgrade might bring it back to life. Sir leo, one thing to add to the thread if all else is not working and u have a firewall norton, comodo etc installed and it has been accidentally set to block all. Your network will not be able to assign an ip to the pc and u will get the limited conectivity message. Very frustrating if u dont know it was turned to block all. Thought i would share just in case someone else encounters this issue.

This has worked for me to get a good connection on a couple of different laptops in different Wi-Fi spots and should be a lot simpler than rebooting the router. I probably need to set the ip config etc. The message further indicated I was connected to our wireless home network with limited connectivity but the end result was no internet access.

The short answer to my solution was to unplug my CISCO router, plug it back in and the problem was solved. Below is more information about my specific case. The problem arose on our laptop running Vista when it suddenly stopped connecting to the internet, getting the above messages about limited connectivity, unidentified network. I was still able to connect to the internet using our desktop computer running Windows 7 64 bit not a wireless connection , was still able to connect to Netflix on another TV and was still able to connect to our wireless network and the internet with an iPad.

Researching this issue on the internet, there were many possible causes and suggested solutions. About a week prior to the issue, I had installed Norton Internet Security on the laptop and thought this may be the cause of the problem but uninstalling it did not resolve the problem.

I have reinstalled NIS and it works fine since employing the solution that worked for me. Before finding my solution I also looked at our router firmware but it was up to date and determined that was not related to the problem.

Also tried some of the other ideas related to internet connection properties but again none of those were related to the issue. I have been seeing the limited connectivity error message lately.