Oh, the irony. I’m usually the one answering this type of question.
Here’s the detailed synopsis:
I just reformatted one of my PC’s and installed windows XP.
I’m on a router and I was initially unable to connect to the internet.
So, I tried manually entering everything, and many other solutions.
I can ping the loopback address just fine, but cannot ping my router. It times out.
I have tried uninstalling the network adapter and letting windows reinstall the correct driver on startup.
I have dried downloading an updated driver for the network adapter and using that one.
Using the new driver has fixed one thing: I now have a physical (MAC) address, where I did not have one before (it was all 0s).
So, I am guessing that the driver is correct (I’m confident that I did install the correct one; I’m not new to computers or anything).
Local area connection says it’s enabled at 100mbps.
I have tried turning the router and modem off and back on several times, and I have tried different ports on my router.
I’ve released and renewed the ip, and flushed the dns.
I am 99% sure that this is a software problem because this connection was working perfectly fine before I reformatted the computer. So, it is extremely unlikely that any hardware peripheral has failed between then and now.
Other PC’s on the router still work fine.
DHCP service is enabled and automatic.
No firewalls installed.
No other useless connections have been added (ie broadband connection which would not work because this is a LAN connection).
So, I am unable to connect to the internet and the LAN connection seems to be working. But I can’t ping my router, and the dhcp doesn’t seem to be working.
I apologize for the information being all over the place. I just wrote things down as I remembered them.
This is all I can think of right now, but if I remember any other details I will post them in the additional details.
If you need any other information I will post it in the additional details and/or mail it to you depending on what you prefer.
If anybody has any clue as to what might be causing this problem, I would more than appreciated. This has already caused several hours of frustration for me. Thank you very much to anyone who takes the time to answer this ridiculous question.
Thank you for your response, but I think there’s a little more to it than that.
I’m not new with this type of thing or anything, so that was one of the first things I did.
Using the default driver after uninstalling and allowing it to re-install automatically cause the default 169. something address, as well as no physical address.
The better, newer driver from the network card’s manufacturer has solved part of the problem, which is making the physical address visible.
However, now there is no ip, and other things seem to be messed up.
ip config /all gives this info now, if DHCP is enabled:
Dhcp enabled: yes
autoconfiguration enabled: yes
ip: 169.254.211.34
subnet mask: 255.255.0.0
Default gateway: completely blank
This is different now, for some reason, but this is not the correct ip range. The DHCP should be assigning an ip within the 192.168.0.x range.
When pinging router: destination host unreachable.
But, if dhcp is enabled: request timed out.
Once again, thanks for your input also, that would have been a correct step to take as well, but I have already tried that and I’ve pretty much determined at this point that the network card must be damaged.
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