alcazar

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We have two laptops here, both were working properly, one wireless, one wired.

Now the old one refuses to recognise the IP address of the router/modem it's wired to. It worked fine for two weeks, was intermittent for a week and now seems stuck on the old IP address from home.

IS there a way i can get it to look at the correct IP address?

It's running Windows XP, ( I DID say it was old), and won't connect by Firefox or IE.

Thanks for any help.

LostUser

Assuming they're getting their address from DHCP

do,

ipconfig /release

then

ipconfig /renew

alcazar

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Tried that, it's what france Telecom told me, but it wouldn't have it.

Is there anywhere I can go and type in the new IP address? I can get it off this one.......

Markus

Have a read of this

tarmac terror

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Between these two commands try flushing the DNS resolver cache

ipconfig /flushdns

boomer

Have you configured the "faulty" PC to use DHCP - the router should be providing the address - not the individual pooter?

Can you connect to the router's admin account via the "non-faulty" PC to check things?

mb

alcazar

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Long-winded, (computers, eh?), but worked first time,many thanks.

Anyone care to hazard a guess as to why it decided to throw a hissy fit?

warrenm2

sounds like the dhcp in the router might be playing up. You didn't give enough info about the ip address in the first place. Was it one given by the router, or a self configed one (those start 169...)? When you released and renewed, what exactly happened? On release it should go to 0.0.0.0, on renew it should get a new one from the router. Did the router just not give one out?