Unable to acquire IP Address or DNS, however Manual IP allows IP-IP browsing

[Josh McFarlane]

I have a weird problem with one of our systems.

It's a TYAN motherboard using the nForce chipset.

When I hook the network cable up to it (known to be good) it shows
connected.

However, the only thing that shows up in the IP Address is 0.0.0.0.
Upon attempting to click repair, it immediately times out saying that
it cannot renew the IP.

Going into command prompt and using ipconfig lists an error that says
that the device has a duplicate IP on the network and cannot function
until it receives a new one. Attempting to release the network adapter
gives an error that it cannot be released in current state.

So, here I'm left with a network card that has no IP address, not even
the internal failure one, and cannot release / renew for a new one.

So I set it to an unused IP address in our static range. It accepts the
parameters, and then configures itself. Windows now shows it properly
as 192.168.0.X. When I attempt to access the outside world via a DNS
name, it fails immediately without even trying to access our dns
server. When I type in the ip address manually, it comes up.

All of the other 10 machines in our network are perfectly fine using
DHCP. Any clue to as why this machine is acting so weird?

Thanks,
Josh McFarlane

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Disable the onboard network card and install a different one and see if you
get the same results.

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