2000 pro LAN issues

[treehugger]

My daughter has an older laptop with 2000 pro (sp4 I think?) on it. It has a wireless card. It had been connecting to our network without any issues. Now it has decided not to. I hve tried the wireless connection and the wired, but it is refusing to obtain an ip address. I can get into the network manully, but there is no internet. It is showing an ip of 169.xxx.xxx.xxx instead of the 192.168.yadda.yadda.

I am now working to connect it to the wireless network. It sees the network, and tries to initialize, but times out while trying to obtain ip address.
In the network connections, it says a network cable is unplugged (for the wireless). However, lights are blinking on the adapter.
In the TCP/IP settings, all are set to obtain automatically, and it is DHCP enabled.
(all other computers on the wireless network are connecting fine)

[Gizmokid2005]

It is possible that the router has run out of DHCP leases. You can try to increase the size of the DHCP pool, or you can try deleting some older leases.

[treehugger]

Thanks. It's set to 50 users, but I'm going to go reboot the router and see if that helps.

[treehugger]

Rebooted router, still nothing. All other comps connecting fine.

[Precidia]

i have had stuff like this happen with all my windows machines from time to time, int he end i couldnt figure out what was wrong so i did a reinstall, not what you want to hear im sure

[treehugger]

That's next on the list, trust me..... *sigh*

[Gizmokid2005]

Have you tried a winsock fix and a tcp/ip stack reset?

Run the following commands from CMD:

netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt

netsh winsock reset catalog <-- This one will require a reboot.

[treehugger]

I'm happy to announce that the laptop is now surfing the net. Of course, I ended up reformatting it, but hey! It worked. Thanks for the help.