I have a cable modem connected through a USB port to an AMD Athlon 1.2 computer with VIA chipset. Running Windows 2000 SP1.
After I boot the computer I have full access to the internet (e-mail, web, etc.).
After a few minutes of activity suddenly the connection dies and I can’t access the internet at all.
I have the following warning in my events log:
“The DNS Client service could not contact any DNS servers for a repeated number of attempts. For the next 30 seconds the DNS Client service will not use the network to avoid further network performance problems. It will resume its normal behavior after that. If this problem persists, verify your TCP/IP configuration, specifically check that you have a preferred (and possibly an alternate) DNS server configured. If the problem continues, verify network conditions to these DNS servers or contact your network administrator.”
The cables network is DHCP enabled.
If I try using “ipconfig” after the connection died in a command prompt, it shows me the first line (“Windows 2000 IP configuration”) and gets stuck too.
I have a windows 98 SE on the same computer. The problem don’t exist there.
I need something else besides reinstalling windows 2000.