Hi guys, straight to the point, I have this rather old computer in my office running Windows XP. Recently it's got formatted because it won't boot for no reason. Can't even get into safe mode. Now that the computer is working sorta fine, but whenever I tried to visit some websites, it showed the DNS lookup failed. The computer is connected wirelessly to our company's streamyx modem, with my default DNS server changed to OpenDNS. All the devices that are connected to the modem works fine except for this computer.
The DNS settings is modified via the modem's setting (192.168.0.1 or something like that) and I've not done any of the network settings on the computer or other devices. It's just that this particular computer can't access a few websites, not even microsoft.com. Ended up can't fetch updates and install antivirus.
I've got a Virtual PC running on my laptop at home running Windows XP as well, and recently I did a format too, and yesterday it was able to fetch all the updates without fail.
So how do I solve this DNS lookup failed issue? Plus, my explorer.exe tend to crash immediately after the logon screen. I haven't got anything installed yet apart from google chrome.
Would appreciate it if someone could shed some light on this. Thank you.
P/S: Computer is old with Pentium 4 and 1gb ram, that's why XP is the most suitable. DNS lookup issue happens on both Chrome and IE. Can't load microsoft, avira, etc. Other computers on the same network works like charm.
This post has been edited by winkiedilwy: May 16 2014, 09:36 PM
newly formatted computer cant load some webpages, DNS lookup failed