XP Pro. DHCP not working at boot-up

[Heinz Schürch]

hi

For a couple of days I have a very wired problem with DHCP at boot-up. For
month I have

been working with a set-up, where the IP adress got assigned from the DSL
router using dhcp.

For some reason this is not working anymore. Currently when booting up I
stay with no connectivity

because a wrong IP address gets assigned. The IP adress that I see with
'ipconfig' is Window's

default adress, which is of course not part of my routers subnet. When I
then issue a manuel

ipconfig /renew

everything is fine. However I have no chance to explain my wife to switch to
admin, open a console,

issue the famous command and returning back to their account.

My diagnostics is, that due to some strange reason dhcp stopped working
properly at boot time.

From the Web searching I can just report, that I have never used Norton anti
virus, that was one

cause for the problem.

Any help or advise would be apreciated.

kind regards

Heinz

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[Rob Elder MVP-Networking]

If the address you are getting starts with 169.254 then it means the DHCP
server cannot be contacted. Try switching ports, replacing the network
cable or installing the updated drivers for your NIC.