its a inspiron 2500 bought refurbished in 2001
running w2kpro and some viruses and spywares probably
last format was less than 1 yrs ago i think
on saturday it was running fine and starting yesterday it wouldnt access internet or lan

so far i can get a list of servers for winamp library and i can scan that labtop with languard
now im out of ideas

 

is it getting IP?

 

Nope...

 

some weird ip
not the one assigned to the port
when i have it use that ip tho it still doesnt work

 

what you mean, not the one assigned to the port?

and what IP are you getting?

 

it should be 192.168.1.102 255.255.255.0
but its 169.254.157.29 255.255.0.0

 

you're getting the generic IP...

I don't remember how to fix it. sometimes ipconfig /release followed by ipconfig /renew will fix it...

I forgot the other method.

 

yea i got that generic xp IP also when my internet or whatever crapped out. i did the /release and /renew...and resetted my router...and then it worked. dont know if that did it, or if it was luck. but i no longer have that generic 169 ip.

 

i already tried /release
All adaptors bound to DHCP do not have DHCP addresses. The addresses were automatically configured and can not be released

 

try giving it a static ip