Hey im running xp today in the bottom right hand corner of my screen a windows eroor came up in yellow saying "there is an ip adress conflict with another computer on this network" or somethign like that , i am running a network with a linksys 4 port router can someone tell me what this means

it means that there is a confict with an existing address as in the fact that there is another computer on the network that is already using the address so you have to find out which other computer is using the address and change the address on one or both of the computers so it doesn't have a conflict anymore since only one computer on the same segment can have that address in other words each address has to be unique or you get the message you are seeing there and this happens on XP or w2k or any system because it's more of a network issue than computer issue so it shouldn't be too hard to fix. Based on the way your question was written, maybe this problem occurred about the same time your shift key and period key broke.

Okay Bubba, Just because the guy doesnt have a shift key and a period key doesn't mean you have too slam him. Joe, what Bubba here was TRYING too say is that some other computer is using the same IP address as you are. So, use another address.

Your probably right Buddy. He is probably 'keyboard challenged' and I shouldnt be so rough on him. It's just that if the keyboard won't let him construct a sentence correctly, it may have malfunctioned during the IP setup as well.

But why would i get this message just now, i havent changed my ip adresses since i got my router.

Are you using DHCP? If all client are DHCP client and the router also do DHCP server, it shouldn't happen. But you can also hardcode a IP address to your client and see if the problem still insist. Try this in case you don't know how to do: 1. Open a command prompt, type ipconfig and see the ip address and netmask 2. If the ip adress is xxx.yyy.zzz.ppp and netmask is 255.255.255.0, change the "ppp" part of the IP adress to some other value. But if there are no DHCP service and you hardcode the IP address to the clients, maybe you just use ghost to clone the client system, so the config remain the same, just change it to something else. Hope this help Jon