Psychotomy

So, we were moving Kiir’s computer upstairs to hook it up to the TV, since it takes a VGA input an all that jazz.

I unhooked the system and pulled it out, then I needed to get the cables and assorted miscellany. The power cable. The video cable (which didn’t matter, since it was DVI and the tv has VGA, oops), and the two cables for the wireless keyboard and mouse. Two, because the mouse that came with the keyboard didn’t work very well, so there’s a separate wireless mouse hookup now. I have the same kind of config, actually.

Doing all that, the cables were wound and wrapped with the network devices. We have the modem, a wired hub, and two wireless ones. WHEEE. Got it untangled and took stuff up. Come back down to go online and … and …

And my computer can’t talk to the internet anymore, wtf? Poking, prodding, rebooted. Nothing. Can’t talk to anything. Fine, I’ll go try her other computer, see if its still up. Yes. OK, check the server, yes. Great, so the internet is working, the server is working, and the wireless is working. So why can’t my computer, which is plugged in to the wireless hub via cable, talk to the internet???

After digging at it a little while longer, I came to the conclusion that it’s not getting the DHCP from the server. I’m kindof wondering if tugging cables free and such, this cable didn’t get wrapped somewhere and break a wire. Not all of them, because it still knows when it’s unplugged vs not working (go figure), but an important one since it can’t seem to get the PROPER signals through :/

So I’m on my laptop right now. Running AV and bot scans on the desktop, since it’s also suddenly piss slow. Really wish I knew WTF was going on with it. Bleah.

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