Out of the blue, my laptop has stopped being able to connect to the internet at my family's house. It won't connect wirelessly nor via a cable. Both ways I get the same message. "Can not renew IP address" and "Limited or no connectivity". Now I hadn't had this problem ever before. When I would visit from college, I would simply clear out the set IP and internet settings that were assigned to me to use on campus and set them to auto for when I am at the house. Worked fine. I had recently set up a proxy for my internet browser but had cleared that as well once I discovered that it was no longer doing what it was intended for. I have done everything I could possibly think of to fix this: reset router configs, disconnect all power to cable and routers, etc. I even made a direct link from the cable modem to my laptop and still the same error and doing that it would now seem that the problem is definitely with my laptop; a setting somewhere that I am missing perhaps?
Any help. Please!
2007-03-17 17:54:19 · 5 answers · asked by DrkWarlock 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Not sure if this chnages anything but I forgot to mention something. When I do connect to my home's wireless network, it appears that I do obtain an IP address for a few seconds, then the IP just starts to change irratically until finally I get a connection problem.
2007-03-18 05:25:42 · update #1
Sounds like something has gotten majorly hosed in your network configuration.
If you have system restore enabled on your laptop, i suggest that you restore you laptop back to the date when it was last known to work with your network at home.
If you con't have system restore enabled, you probably have a hard, long road head of you deleting network cards for your configuration and then re-adding them. Let's hope that the system restore thing works...
Good luck,
Annorax64
2007-03-17 18:20:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not unusual for Windows to loose the IP stack. Particularly when you change settings from fixed to DHCP and add proxy etc.
Try the shortest fix first. Go into the Control Panel, system, hardware and simply remove the network adapter from the list. *Just delete it period - I know it sounds scary but its not.
Then reboot.
The system should re-find the hardware and re-instal the drivers thus re-establishiing the "network stack".
If the system has trouble finding the "new" hardware you may need to get new drivers for the network card. *Those can be downloaded from most manufacturers. (use any working machine and copy them to a CD if you do not have the drivers cd for your system) 99% of the time XP will find and reinstall without any issues.
This generally fixes the issue you described.
Certainly is better than reloading the OS.
2007-03-18 01:54:05 · answer #2 · answered by Tracy L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That used to ensue to me each and every of the time. I did the comparable suggestions as nicely. I then observed as my ISP to envision out wut's goin on... so they went blah blah, they suggested the relationship replace into fantastic, and then suggested there must be probably sumthing blocking off the alerts. They took a glance at my roof and there, the trees are caught up in the antenna. Lol. make advantageous sumthing's no longer getting into your internet antenna's way, if there is none then nonetheless supply your ISP a hoop
2016-10-18 23:27:25 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That sounds like a firewall conflict issue.Try disabling the firewall/anti-virus in your computer.
2007-03-18 15:53:05 · answer #4 · answered by vanessa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
FORMAT HARD DISK . RELOAD WINDOW. START AGAIN...
2007-03-17 18:09:53 · answer #5 · answered by WIZARD 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋