Hugh, Thanks for the reply. I have my own laptop on the same connection and it worked fine. I remove the Ethernet cable from mine and place on this one and nada. I made the IP address and gateway the same as the one that worked and no luck. I did install the free AV that M$ gave with the XP security disk and ran that. The firs time before the vir*s got on, I was able to connect to the Internet, but not finish the M$ internet updates because the v*rus got on. I'm at a loss, because the icon says I am connected and bytes indicate I am transferring data, but that's it. Jeff -- Intrepid Video TV/VCR Repair www.intrepid-video.com www.tech-repair.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugh Vandervoort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 7:12 PM Subject: RE: PCWorks: Win XP, can not access Internet.
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. **************************************************************************** ******* 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 ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
