Windows Me IP loss

My dad recently bought my sister an old pc home from work, it all works fine and so on. Because we run on a router for our internet connection because we all have our own computers we had to install a network card into the computer. We managed to get it all working and installed the router and internet fine. The internet worked fine for a day or two untill it lost its IP address. We have had the idea of reinstalling the network card but we want to find out if theres a way to retreave the IP address first. Thanks

Chris

 

The command:

ipconfig /renew

usually forces the computer to request a renewal of the IP address from the DHCP server (the function on your router, that gives out IP addresses).

However, there isn't a good reason why a system should just lose its IP address. I think this may be a symptom of a more fundimental problem. I would suggest you check your cables and try connecting the computer to different port on your router.

 

Will i need to type the commands into the run dialog box?

 

The better way is:

type "command" into the run dialog box.

then you will get a DOS window.

then type "ipconfig /renew"


However I suspect it will work in your case. Anyway, try and to see what will happen.

 

You could also try setting up a static IP. I'm not entirely sure if it's done the same way in winme as it is in win98, but I'm going to pretend it is

Right Click on Network Neighborhood and go to properties, from there click on your network adapter and click properties.

It should be pretty self explainatory from there. If you know what kind of router it is (or even better, what the router's internal IP addy is) then I can be of more assistance.

I'll give an example of my home set up though, for my router's 192.168.0.1 ip.

Ip address: 192.168.0.115
subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
default gateway: 192.168.0.1

Then my DNS server is also set up as 192.168.0.1.

Sorry I couldn't be more specific, but it's been a long time since I looked at a winme machine