The 169 number indicates the laptop is not getting a valid IP address. It
should probably be a 192 series.
It's not clear to me what kind of connection you have. Is there a router
involved?
I would install a good AV program, disable the firewall momentarily and try
again.
I believe some ISPs validate your MAC address and this is possibly a problem
also.
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This is a Dell Laptop I was going to give to my sister-in-law. I wiped the
hard drive using the install disk and reinstalled XP. Every thing seems to
be working, except
it will not get on the Internet.
I've compared all the settings with the ones on my lap top on the same
connections and they match exactly. I removed and reinstalled the Ethernet
card, reset the model unstalled the networking components,
restarted and reinstalled the networking components/
The first time I tried this, in less the time it took to get MS updates, a
virus got on it..created the
mscon*g32.exe file.
I wiped the hard drive and started all over, this time enabling firewall
before I connected the Ethernet
plug., but I still can not get on.
I've done the repair, went to command prompt and typed ipconfig /renew and
some other switches I found on
the net still with no luck.
I keep getting no connection is available, then page can not be displayed.
Open the Local area connection and it shows bytes being sent and none
received. If I ping my IP address 169.254.84.214 I get results, but ping
something on the net and no luck, even by
IP address.
I really can't afford to spend another entire day on this thing. Does anyone
have any ideas for me? Thank you. Jeff
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