Cannot obtain IP Address Automatically Anymore

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DELL Inspiron 1100 - Windows XP Pro - Simple File Sharing disabled - Wired
LinkSys Router with DHCP enabled - Specified a range of 8 IP addresses in
router to handle the 6 systems that connect to it.

This laptop has always had TCP/IP set to automatically obtain IP and DNS
addresses, and worked fine for over two years. This week, it would not
connect to the network. Got errors that I had "limited conductivity" or
"network cable is unplugged". I really thought I had a failed integrated
NIC. After much troubleshooting, I manually set up the IP address so that it
was static. It then connected and worked.

Why, after two years, do I now have to use a static IP address with this
system? I checked my services and DHCP Client service is running, as are the
usual network services. What else can I check?

Thanks for any replies!
 
zaqxsw said:
DELL Inspiron 1100 - Windows XP Pro - Simple File Sharing disabled - Wired
LinkSys Router with DHCP enabled - Specified a range of 8 IP addresses in
router to handle the 6 systems that connect to it.
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Use a much bigger range (like, at least two or three times what you have
now). Anybody within range of your AP can ask the router for a DHCP
address if it's an open point, you could be running out of IPs.
 
Thanks Paul, I don't think that is the problem. I'm really thinking
something is wrong with the integrated NIC, which I can't do anything with.
 
Paul said:
Use a much bigger range (like, at least two or three times what you have
now). Anybody within range of your AP can ask the router for a DHCP
address if it's an open point, you could be running out of IPs.
Click to expand...

zaqxsw, if you replied, please email me or reply using something other than
the web frontend. I use a news server that just started to drop all the
web frontend posts on microsoft.* and all posts from Google Groups.
 
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