unable to contact our DHCP server

[Guest]

I had just installed XP home after complete format, the pc was able to access
the net jus fine before the format, Now at the begining it had 0.0.0.0 for
IP, when I fallowed some instructions of prior questions in this community, I
asigned it to an empty IP on my home network, not it shows connection but
can't open any page, also after CMD , ipconfig/ renew it errors out "unable
to contact our DHCP server"
what shall I do??

Sara

 

[Malke]

I had just installed XP home after complete format, the pc was able to
access the net jus fine before the format, Now at the begining it had
0.0.0.0 for IP, when I fallowed some instructions of prior questions
in this community, I asigned it to an empty IP on my home network, not
it shows connection but can't open any page, also after CMD ,
ipconfig/ renew it errors out "unable to contact our DHCP server"
what shall I do??

Sara

After you formatted/clean-installed, did you install all your hardware
drivers? It sounds like you didn't install your motherboard drivers (if
network adapter is onboard) and/or your network adapter drivers.

Malke

 

[Guest]

all drivers are installed properly, with the most updated drivers download
from the Manf. site via another computer,