DHCP error

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Cant find an ip address

My system can not assigne an automatic ip address.
It was working fine a few days ago and then it suddenly
stopped getting connected to the network,
It is taking an ip address which is totaly different from
the ip addr i have on all other computers and the reson
is that it cant find the dhcp server and is assigning an
address starting with 169.xxx.xxx.xxx

Can some tell me waht is the cause and the solution to
this.
I have done all the hardware trouble shottingeg cables
and all and they are fine.

Best Regards,
Ashish
 
Logon locally to the PC and bring up a command line
window. Next at the command prompt type IPCONFIG /? this
will show you he help for the command. What you want to do
is a /release i.e. - ipconfig /release 0 where 0 is the
NIC id.

Reboot the PC and this time it should go to the DHCP and
get a correct address.
 
When you do the release/renew do you get a can't find
socket error, or something like that? If so your sockets
are messed up. See other post belowre about deleting the
registry keys for Winsock and Winsock2:

Subject: Re: XP and Winsock
Wrom: VRESKPNKMBIPBARHDMNNSKVFVWRKJVZCMHVIBGDADRZFSQHYUCD
Sent: 8/5/2003 1:10:59 PM

This is probably what you want

1. Backup and delete the following registry keys and
restart computer

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsoc
k
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsoc
k2

2. Reboot

3. Go to the network connections folder, right click the
icon for your
network connection, and select properties.

4. Click install, choose "protocol", and click "add..."

5. Click "Have Disk...", enter "\windows\inf", click OK

6. Select "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), click OK

7. When the process in complete, reboot
 
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