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Can't renew or repair IP address
Name: gtr7 Date: June 27, 2004 at 12:28:00 Pacific OS: xp CPU/Ram: AMD
Comment:
Hello, I have a problem....I cannot obtain IP address in XP...I can see the local network but just can't get an ip adress when I click on renew or repair...anyone know why? and how to fix it?
Well the problem is when I click on the repair button it won't allow me to renew or obtain an IP address...don't know why but I still have local network
Name: gtr7 Date: June 27, 2004 at 16:54:12 Pacific
Reply:
Router all my other computer work fine
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Response Number 3
Name: A.J. Brunetti (by AJBrunetti) Date: June 30, 2004 at 06:39:00 Pacific
Reply:
If your computer was getting an IP at one time and then stopped there are two things you can do, one is make sure that your cryptographic services are running fine, if not youll have to delete winsock and winsock2, and you can do a simple system restore back to when it was working. Also you make want to check out your router and be sure you have enough available IP addressed, ie its not set to assign only 3 IPs when you have 4 computers.
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