Hello, I am having problems with somewhat strange behaviour of my old Vista Home. I have recently bought Lacie La Cinema HD drive, and hooked into my home router by cable. It's got a fixed, static IP, and is easily accessible by all my machines, apart from the only running Vista. In general : 1. Vista can ping router, gets a reply, but cannot ping anything else on the same local network - always gets Destination host unreachable. 2. Booting in Safe Mode with Networking - got a success, access to local network. But it is gone after reboot, and it is gone after going Safe Mode with Networking again. 3. Vista has no problem at all hooking onto the router and connecting to internet, but does not connect to any of the LAN machines, and cannot use network shares. 4. firewall (Zone Alarm) and antivirus (AVG) were shut down - still no LAN access. Any ideas ?

Any ideas anyone ? Still struggling with it...