ipconfig returns IP address 169.254.XX.X

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My Internet connection stopped working.
Symptoms:
1. ipconfig returns IP address 169.254.XX.X which I was told is the default
address generated by my Windows.
Before it used to be 10.X.X.X.
Concequently pinging IP address of my provider sends 4 packets and receives
zero.
2. on XP, installed on another partition of the same computer it works OK,
ipconfig returns 10.X.X.X. and pinging provider successfully.
What might be the problem
 
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aa said:
My Internet connection stopped working.
Symptoms:
1. ipconfig returns IP address 169.254.XX.X which I was told is the
default address generated by my Windows.
Before it used to be 10.X.X.X.
Concequently pinging IP address of my provider sends 4 packets and
receives zero.
2. on XP, installed on another partition of the same computer it
works OK, ipconfig returns 10.X.X.X. and pinging provider
successfully.
What might be the problem
Click to expand...

try typing
ipconfig /release
enter
ipconfig /renew
 
aa said:
My Internet connection stopped working.
Symptoms:
1. ipconfig returns IP address 169.254.XX.X which I was told is the default
address generated by my Windows.
Before it used to be 10.X.X.X.
Concequently pinging IP address of my provider sends 4 packets and receives
zero.
2. on XP, installed on another partition of the same computer it works OK,
ipconfig returns 10.X.X.X. and pinging provider successfully.
What might be the problem
Click to expand...
So it's software and not hardware.

You have obviously rebooted, so I won't suggest that!

So you could try allocating it a fixed but presently unused IP address
within the 10... range and current netmask and see if that allows you to
ping out. I'd start with pinging the router address (ie a 10.... one
that XP shows as the default gateway.)

If that works, put it back to dynamic and reboot and see if all is well.

If it doesn't - try deleting the IP protocol from the NIC, reboot and
reinstall the IP protocol.
 
Thank you. Before posting the question, I actually deleted and re-installed
the IP protocol. Did not help.
I will try the first method you suggested. I understand I can assign the
same IP addresses as are shown in my XP installation on thus computer?
 
ipconfig /release returned
all the adapters linked to DHCP do not have DHCP addresses and cannot be
released
ipconfig /renew returned
cannot perform an operation on an object which is not a socket
PS. I have a non-English w2k and the messages above are rough translations
into English
 
If this is relevant - when originally setting this w2k up, two local network
connections were created for some reason. So far this caused no visible
problems. However now I want to delete one of them, but cannot as the DELETE
is greyed.
How do I remove it?
 
aa said:
Thank you. Before posting the question, I actually deleted and re-installed
the IP protocol. Did not help.
I will try the first method you suggested. I understand I can assign the
same IP addresses as are shown in my XP installation on thus computer?
Click to expand...

If you only have a single computer, that shouldn't be a problem.

However, it would be better to use one that isn't in the pool of
addresses allocated to machines on your LAN. It can result in two units
having the same IP address.

If you don't know the range of addresses that is available for
allocation, you could add an offset to the address that you know is
used. eg, if the "XP address" is 10.0.0.120, you could use 10.0.0.140

That is only an educated guess as to an unallocated address, but better
than using one that you know for certain is in the address pool.
 
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