How do I resolve error 651 on a new Windows 8 installation?

Anonymous
2012-11-08T04:36:31+00:00

I installed Windows 8 Pro on a Zotac Zbox AD03 3 days ago. The installation went fine and everything, including the network and internet, worked just fine. The network contains 4 Windows 7 machines, a network printer, a Buffalo NAS, a Windows Home Server, a 16 port switch and a Motorola combo cable modem (DOCSIS 3.0) and router. The new computer with Windows 8 could see everything and appeared to function perfectly with normal internet access. After powering it off for the night I restarted it the next morning and found it could only see the Windows Home Server and one of the Windows 7 machines. It reported that it was not attached to a network and when I tried to connect I got error 651. I did a complete new install and it still could only see the Windows Home Server and the same other Windows 7 machine and still get the error 651 message. What could have happened during that power down/restart to cause it to lose network connectivity? How do I fix it?

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Internet and connectivity

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-01-07T16:35:31+00:00

    for all - it did worked for me on LAN

    1. right click on Network
    2. left click on Properties
    3. left click on Change adapter settings
    4. you will see a BroadBand Connection (WAN Miniport (PPPOE)), right click on that
    5. left click on Connect/Disconnect
    6. type in username and password as provided
    7. hit ENTER

    hope this helps .

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-11-18T08:01:45+00:00

    Hi Sondra

    Not sure if my problem was as severe as yours but I ran registry clean up in Norton 360 and that cured my problem. If you have not got Norton 360 registry clean up is available on other anti virus suite software

    Robin Graham

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-11-18T03:12:14+00:00

    I just experienced this issue tonight.  First thought it was IPS, but when I looked further it was as if the hardware disappeared -- vanished.  What did you do to resolve the issue.  This happened in both hard wired and wifi, Windows 8.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-09-30T12:52:10+00:00

    Hey guys I installed Windows 7 64bit to replace my 34bit and got the error 651, I couldn't download drivers and it was saying it couldn't identify my Ethernet cable!! So I inserted the disk that came with my ASUS motherboard and installed all drivers through that!! Worked a charm!! I hope this helps someone because I almost took an axe to my pc before figuring this out!! 

    Cheers

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-09-01T10:24:40+00:00

    that would be uber cool but i'm connecting directly into a cisco switch and the switch directly to a srv.

    It's a dormroom so each building has it's own srv for each 500 users. Kind of hard to power it off :D

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