Another Success for the Pprune Computer & Internet Forum
Envirascape, Fobotsco and General Electric
Sirs,
I reviewed the Services Event log for the period around about when I'd implemented the fobotsco advice and noted therefafter many errors related to DNS and the card configuration (being inexplicably changing its IP address at random). I assumed a TCP/IP corruption/crash, deleted the NIC card in Hardware and it reloaded on re-boot and hey presto, all was OKAY with the network.
The esoteric nature of the MS product and its error messages never fails to amaze me. Thanks for your excellent advices. My lesson learnt is that no matter what you do, the second to last ditch measure is delete devices and let Windows sort itself out. I re-learnt that same lesson with my SCSI scanner's TWAIN driver and SCSI card. The scanner wouldn't operate off the install program but once I killed the SCSI card and rebooted, all came good.
If airplanes treated me like this, I'd ground myself.
BellCheek