Everything is going great, then it isn’t. I wasn’t even doing anything stupid.
As Megyn Kelly was playing on Youtube, I was checking a few websites when sites stopped loading. I went through my troubleshooting process.
- Try big sites like Google and Amazon to see if the outside internet has a problem. No luck.
- Try another computer to access the internet. No problem.
- Try accessing network drives. No luck.
- Reboot computer. No luck.
- Cycle power on the UPS for the modem and router. No luck.
That is all the easy stuff. The problem is software or hardware on this computer. Now it’s hard stuff.
In “Network and Sharing”, I tried the automatic troubleshooting. That has never solved a problem, but it’s worth a try. Doing every kind of Windows Network Diagnostic, at least I got an error code.
Googling yielded a bunch of videos that all showed different procedures. Since everything worked until it didn’t, I was reluctant to edit the Registry, delete device drivers or change network protocols.
“System Restore” has never helped because there never seems to be a recent restore point. I tried it anyway, and the process worked, but the problem remained.
This was a catastrophe. Don’t judge, I use this computer for the internet and all my media viewing, and I was out of ideas. As catastrophes go, this was more disturbing than my gall bladder surgery. Once I got to the hospital, I didn’t really mind that.
It occurred to me that the power hadn’t been cycled on the wireless router in the living room. Tried that, and voilà. I return to my charmed life.
A near-miss always motivates me to shore up my system and backup everything.
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