Here the deal. The one time I finally get to use my system, and I have spent much time and money on my system, it fails. It couldnt fail for the months while I testing it, alway worked perfect. Then the first time I get to show it off, IT FAILS. WOW, you want to talk about a let down? WOW, I still cannot believe this happened. I do no commercial stuff, family only, and the system let me down. I am now trying to understand what happpened?? I had even run a total sytem check this morning, all was Golden, all pc's are talking to eachother, all mapped drives are online, and the when I go to actually use it, it fails. Cannot access mapped drives, they are in use? By What? The only thing I can think of is I did have one pc doing backup at that time, and of course that pc flagged that backup had failed. I use windows backup, I have a backup drive that is only used for backup. What I was doing was a simple picture, using xp virtaul, ( because my camera is old, my software for the camera is old, wont run in 7). So, what I want to know? If I have a pc doing backup on the network, does that tie-up my whole network?

It is very hard to analyze what is the cause of your problem. Would you better structure of problem description? Add your findings of errors and warnings in Event logs. Run sfc /scannow. Specify your hardware and software. Regards Milos

Hi , Did the issue occur before you performed the backup? Could you access the backup drive? If not, the backup failure is because backup drive is not able to be accessed. Backup on the network will not tie-up the whole network. If any error message received, please capture a screenshot and post it here. Meanwhile, you may boot computer in Clean Boot to determine whether the 3rd party software cause this issue. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796Tracy Cai TechNet Community Support

Sorry for the slow reply, I think I have figured it out, after thinking abour it. I had made Qos router changes, in regards to priorty's. I eliminated some priorty setting that I dont use, the pc that was in backup, was portable, so I manually backup at my discretion. I did notice that the resource monitor showed the network was pushed to 99%, which I did think was strange, since even on lan, it never went went over 49% before. (I am attributing this to the Qos change). The sytem itself never failed, The pop up on XP mode only stated it could not connect to the mapped drive.( What I was doing envolved family, and was an at the moment, cant be duplicated). This is not a widows problem, my router was over loaded, but i need to figure out how to set my router so my stuff takes priority.

Hi , Regarding the issue is more related to the router, it is recommended to contact the router manufacturer for assistance. Thank you for your understanding. Best Regards.Tracy Cai TechNet Community Support

Hi , Regarding the issue is more related to the router, it is recommended to contact the router manufacturer for assistance. Thank you for your understanding. Best Regards.Tracy Cai TechNet Community Support