Hello,
My thought is that Something gets replaced which is not compatible with
the installed version of the wireless NIC drivers. If you are feeling
adventuresome, you might want to download the latest device drivers for
the wireless adapter from the manufacturer (which might be Lenovo) and
then try applying the Windows Live Essentials update.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
At 10:00 AM 8/18/2009, you wrote:
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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:06:03 -0400
From: "Phil Smith III" <li...@akphs.com>
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Reinstalling XP and Office
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
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Turns out my sister-in-law has the Office CDs, so I went ahead and
backed up her data (which for once was tidily in \Documents and
Settings\herid where it belongs!) and did a restore back to factory.
That fixed the wireless issue.
Here's where it gets interesting: I then went through applying SP3
and the rest of the Windows service that was available. That of
course involved multiple reboots. And all was well until the last
batch of ~8 updates, after which the wireless problem was back. Same
symptoms: "Acquiring IP address" for a while, then back to
disconnected with no error message. Watching it in the router, I
could see it associating but never getting an IP.
I used System Restore to go back to the previous restore point and
the wireless works again. So I applied the updates once more, in
small groups (like, all the Media Player ones together) until the
only one left was the Windows Live Essentials. Declining to fight
with it any more (perhaps thus losing my membership in the Guild of
Tinkerers), I marked that update as "Don't offer this to me again" and left it.
But I know I've applied that update to other machines (which is how
I've come to have NO interest in using it) with no problems.
Anybody seen this? I Googled and found someone suggesting that it
was widespread, but my other searching didn't support that.
...phsiii
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