I recently relocated a Windows 2000 machine. I took it off the network in order to make it a stand alone machine. I disabled the NIC card in the process. Now when I boot it up it gets stuck at the preparing network connections screen. Its been two days and it is still preparing network connections for a network that does not exist. Any ideas?
walrushead
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Jump to PostWas this PC on a domain? Try booting into safe mode, enabling the nic, and setting the TCP/IP properties to obtain automatically.
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HoustonIT
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Was this PC on a domain? Try booting into safe mode, enabling the nic, and setting the TCP/IP properties to obtain automatically.
walrushead
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Yes It was on a domain. Now it is a standalone. I reenabled the nic and set the TCP/IP to auto and it is still getting hung up at preparing network connections
HoustonIT
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What service pack does it have? This was apparently a problem before sp2.
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