- Oct 29, 2014
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So to fully get to my point, I'm going to have to explain everything that has happened prior to my networking trouble within the last 10 hours of this post.
About 9 months about I had installed a custom bootskin/startup splash screen for when I started my computer. Recently I enabled "Super Admin" and transferred all my stuff from my old user to it. For some reason, the bootskin failed to load after that, and started using what looked like a standard splash loader you might see on like Windows 98. No issues other than that.
I decided early this morning though that I wanted to go ahead and just change it back to the standard Windows 7 splash screen. That was the worst mistake I could have made.
I instantly was forced into a looping startup repair. Having been through a similar, unrelated issue, I put in my windows disk and used the bootrec command prompts, which wasn't working, eventually getting me the "Error 0xc000428" about the boot loader having an invalid signature. Eventually, reactivating the partition and letting startup repair run about 3 times fixed it, setting the loader back to the little windows 98 splash and booting to my desktop. However, none of my network adapter will connect to the internet, bringing me to my current issue.
They don't even connect to the router via ethernet cable. I've tried many of the ipconfig commands trying to diagnose the issue. Running troubleshoot gets me ' "Local Area Connection" doesn't have a valid IP Configuration ' Setting preferred IP configs and DNS setting either gives me the "Cannot contact DNS Server" or doesn't read any issues at all, yet I'm still not connected. I'm frustrated and guilt tripping myself for doing something risky, knowing I have things to do that need the internet. I'm hoping someone can give me a hand. I'll be as patient as I can and give any logs needed.
My OS System is Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
Thank you.
About 9 months about I had installed a custom bootskin/startup splash screen for when I started my computer. Recently I enabled "Super Admin" and transferred all my stuff from my old user to it. For some reason, the bootskin failed to load after that, and started using what looked like a standard splash loader you might see on like Windows 98. No issues other than that.
I decided early this morning though that I wanted to go ahead and just change it back to the standard Windows 7 splash screen. That was the worst mistake I could have made.
I instantly was forced into a looping startup repair. Having been through a similar, unrelated issue, I put in my windows disk and used the bootrec command prompts, which wasn't working, eventually getting me the "Error 0xc000428" about the boot loader having an invalid signature. Eventually, reactivating the partition and letting startup repair run about 3 times fixed it, setting the loader back to the little windows 98 splash and booting to my desktop. However, none of my network adapter will connect to the internet, bringing me to my current issue.
They don't even connect to the router via ethernet cable. I've tried many of the ipconfig commands trying to diagnose the issue. Running troubleshoot gets me ' "Local Area Connection" doesn't have a valid IP Configuration ' Setting preferred IP configs and DNS setting either gives me the "Cannot contact DNS Server" or doesn't read any issues at all, yet I'm still not connected. I'm frustrated and guilt tripping myself for doing something risky, knowing I have things to do that need the internet. I'm hoping someone can give me a hand. I'll be as patient as I can and give any logs needed.
My OS System is Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
Thank you.
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