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by easttdav

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My wife uses a win 95 pc at work and says that after waking the pc from stand-by (or is it hibernation?)she has no network connections and must restart to regain them.
No one else has this problem, so I dont suspect a system policy issue. I haven'tlooked at it yet, but wanted a few suggestions I can give her before I take the trip to look at it. Thanks, David.

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by tsen

It sounds to me like there is a problem obtaining an ip from the DHCP server in her building. I would suggest checking to make sure that it was not lost during hibernation. The utility winipcfg, included with win95 (ipconfig for nt) will do the job. If this is in fact the problem the solution may be as simple as renewing the ip.

by easttdav

I'm not sure I understand why it would suddenly lose the ip address when it went on standby, and the lease should renew automatically unless there were more pc's then addresses.

by sjh105

It is possible that they did not correctly attach the power polling cable that wakes the NIC.

by easttdav

Thanks, but I,m sure its not a problem with the nic (wake-on-lan) I think the problem is with the hibernation mode.

by jpmcloughlin2000

Before allowing the computer to go into stand-by, disconnect the network connections and end task any messenger programs ie. AIM, MSN messenger, Yahoo messenger. Disabling other programs that may be programmed to search for updates ie. Virus protection or MS updates may also help. It seems that when there is a program that requires a network connection to run and the system is in stand-by it creates a conflict. Hope this helps.

by grantcom

If the NIC is ISA this is the likely cause. Replace the NIC with a PCI NIC. ISA devices can loose there initialization in sleep mode.

by nhuf

Just a thought. When going into sleep mode, perhaps her computer is he only one with the hard drive shutting down and not just the monitor. This could very easily loose the network. If my machine shuts down the drive when sleeping I loose this as well. but why she couldn't just reinitialize is a good question.

by mongo3d

Check the CMOS power options. The Power Button Mode: is probably set to Suspend/Sleep. Change this setting to, ON/OFF. Sometimes when the CMOS and the Software are both trying to control Power Management the system loses Network connections when it goes into Sleep Mode.

by estebandelatorre

Disable the power management function from the machine setup (specially if it is a Compaq Deskpro pc)
Also go to the Control Panel in W95 and disable the power save functions supported for your hardware.
Remember (new monitors has their own power save functions)
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by hamilm

Although this is a Win 95 PC it might help out to look at the problems that occur with networks on Win 98 in the microsoft knowledge base. Since I have no idea what your hardware/software configuration is it is hard to diagnose this problem. If, as stated before, it is a Compaq, this seems like a common occurance. Play with the APM settings and take a look at the following page: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q191/5/18.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=sleep%20IP%20Problem&rnk=1&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=W98

Good Luck

by irishbul

When the PC boots check the BIOS setup and see what the power management is set to, if that is turned on what is happening is her PC is going into a low power mode, which shut's off the power to the NIC (network interface card)which when she wakes the PC out of hibernation doesn't re-establish her network connection, which would explain why the reboot works.

Hope this helps

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