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jamesmgregg68
Here's what happened to me:
I bought a Dell Inspiron 600m laptop with XP in Aug. 2004.
No problems until last week, I accidentally browsed a site that did a
drive-by download of spyware and adware.
Nothing worked - I eliminated most of it, but couldn't eradicate 6
registry entries.
Since the drive was already badly fragmented and defrag never cleared
it all, I figured I may as well do a fresh reinstall of XP and start
from scratch. I've done this a few time's before on my ex's 600m, so I
knew what I was doing.
I reinstalled XP into the same partition, overwriting everything, and
reinstalled all the Dell OEM drivers from the CD provided with the
machine.
I installed the drivers for both the LAN card (Broadcom 702? Gigabit
Integrated Controller, or something like that) and the Centrino
wireless card, and all the others.
Wireless card connects to my wireless router, but no Internet activity.
I call Comcast (local cable company) tech support and very helpful and
friendly tech support person troubleshoots problem, and discovers the
following is my problem:
IP ADDRESS ASSIGNED IS 169.xxx.xxx.xxx, WHICH IS THE LAPTOP ITSELF AND
NOT ASSIGNED BY DHCP.
So, we try the following to fix it:
* disable and enable LAN card - no effect
* reinstall drivers - no effect
* hard boot cable modem and router (from her end too) - no effect
* check all DHCP and TCP/IP settings - no effect
* DOS prompt - ipconfig /release - doesn't work, won't release the IP
Since now we determined it was something with the wireless card and XP,
she refers me to Dell tech support.
That technician has me enable the LAN card and hard-wire directly to
the modem. Voila, IP assigned and Internet is working.
So...end of the story...
MY WIRELESS CONNECTION WON'T WORK BECAUSE THE WIRELESS ROUTER/CARD
WON'T GET AN IP ADDRESS THAT DOESN'T START WITH 169, AND I CAN'T
RELEASE IT THROUGH COMMAND PROMPT.
My next step is to call Microsoft tech support, but I'm a-scared of
that.
Any advice? Thanks much in advance!
I bought a Dell Inspiron 600m laptop with XP in Aug. 2004.
No problems until last week, I accidentally browsed a site that did a
drive-by download of spyware and adware.
Nothing worked - I eliminated most of it, but couldn't eradicate 6
registry entries.
Since the drive was already badly fragmented and defrag never cleared
it all, I figured I may as well do a fresh reinstall of XP and start
from scratch. I've done this a few time's before on my ex's 600m, so I
knew what I was doing.
I reinstalled XP into the same partition, overwriting everything, and
reinstalled all the Dell OEM drivers from the CD provided with the
machine.
I installed the drivers for both the LAN card (Broadcom 702? Gigabit
Integrated Controller, or something like that) and the Centrino
wireless card, and all the others.
Wireless card connects to my wireless router, but no Internet activity.
I call Comcast (local cable company) tech support and very helpful and
friendly tech support person troubleshoots problem, and discovers the
following is my problem:
IP ADDRESS ASSIGNED IS 169.xxx.xxx.xxx, WHICH IS THE LAPTOP ITSELF AND
NOT ASSIGNED BY DHCP.
So, we try the following to fix it:
* disable and enable LAN card - no effect
* reinstall drivers - no effect
* hard boot cable modem and router (from her end too) - no effect
* check all DHCP and TCP/IP settings - no effect
* DOS prompt - ipconfig /release - doesn't work, won't release the IP
Since now we determined it was something with the wireless card and XP,
she refers me to Dell tech support.
That technician has me enable the LAN card and hard-wire directly to
the modem. Voila, IP assigned and Internet is working.
So...end of the story...
MY WIRELESS CONNECTION WON'T WORK BECAUSE THE WIRELESS ROUTER/CARD
WON'T GET AN IP ADDRESS THAT DOESN'T START WITH 169, AND I CAN'T
RELEASE IT THROUGH COMMAND PROMPT.
My next step is to call Microsoft tech support, but I'm a-scared of
that.
Any advice? Thanks much in advance!