Question for the gurus
A couple of weeks ago I suffered a strange problem in that when I started the system up in the mornings I got 'no internet connection' the cause of which was an 'unidentified public network' being discovered. Obviously the first thing I did was to run various virus scans, all of which were negative. I then disabled the network in the 'network and sharing' window, did a repair and all was well.
This happened again the next day so a more in depth investigation was carried out which came up with the following parameters:
1) It only happened if windows (V7) arrived at the log-on window before the router had finished initializing and only at the first start up of the day, if I delayed windows start-up by using F8 then no problem occured.
2) I tried deleting the public network by using the 'ROUTE DELETE 0.0.0.0' CMD but the problem was still there next morning.
While I was pondering what to try next, bearing in mind the above took several days, I started to get the message at boot 'the cpu configuration has changed press delete to enter set-up' so I checked an the cpu multiplier had changed so I reset it and carried on. The same thing happened the next morning so I reset it and changed the CMOS battery.
Since then there has been no re-occurrence of the network problem
So the question is : Why should a failing CMOS battery cause windows to find a spurious network?