Can Win 8.1 make a "Smart TV" dumb?
Is it possible or just a coincidence? I went from using Windows Vista to Win 8.1 (8.1 was a clean install), the next day when I tried to use the "Smart" functions on my TV I get a msg: "Network inter...
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Dozer wrote:
Thanks for the replies. The TV has an IP address, which I can ping with no problems.
Makes no difference whether the PC is on or off. I thought it might be a conflict between my wireless printer and the TV so I deleted the printer all together. No help.
It IS possible to ping a device with a duplicate IP address and yet the one device may not be able to access the network..
The router may have assigned the same address to your PC which may have caused your your TV to disable the network connection on the TV..
You may need to find out how to clear the network config info on the TV, turn off ALL devices on the network, reboot the router then turn TV on with no other devices on other than the router..
Once TV is on check to see if the error has cleared..
If cleared then turn on the PC with the TV on and see if no error happens..
You may want to go into the router and check to make sure it doesn't have any MAC addresses being blocked.. Since the TV MAC address may have been blocked by the router when a duplicate IP was detected..
This is assuming your TV is using a wired access, if you are using wireless then it could even be a problem with wireless security settings..
