Pinging °ÿ ?

Posted by mkhairul - July 18, 2007 at 10:07:45 pm -

Categories: blog

As weird as it gets, my housemate woke up from his sleep and starts modifying shit on his computer. After an hour later, he realized he’s done something bad, unspeakably bad.

Actually, his pc can’t connect to anywhere. It doesn’t even know its own IP Address (ping 127.0.0.1 results in pinging °ÿ with 32 bytes of data, but it shows everything else’s right in ipconfig). After going through piles of links. None solved it. Keywords such as "unable automatically ip parameters network card", APIPA (Automatic Private IP Addressing), and some other kind of shit. None solved it.

We also went to the wild wild registry and adjust few stuffs, hoping it’ll fix it. But nay, twas a futile attemp.

After the fire of hope being doused from his soul, he decided to do a system restore. I start to search for other solution. And I noticed, when I ping 127.0.0.1 it results in pinging °ÿ. I searched for it and found an entry in devhardware.com’s forum. It’s winsock related.

Googled for "setting winsock", and leads to "Repair/Reset Winsock settings", which in turn, points to the hero of the moment. WinSock XP Fix. Case closed. Stomach growling. I must devour some food.

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