I am experiencing a similar problem with my Dimension 8400 running Xp Media Center '05.
Starting today, I am unable to obtain an IP address at all on this PC, no matter what I do.
I am quite perplexed, as this system has been running without issue for years now.
The device name for the LAN connection is Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller.
I have two other PCs on the same network, they are still able to obtain an IP address from the cable router.
I monitored the cable router's DHCP client table while this system was booting up and I observed that the Dell Dim. 8400 appeared briefly in the table and then disappeared less than a second later. When I do an IPCONFIG at the command prompt, it has mysteriously acquired the useless address '169.254.52.225'.
Any help or advice anyone can offer will be greatly appreciated
Thank you for the ideas. I did try them both: winsocfix ran and then said to reboot, but there was no change. lspfix started, but it reported "no problems found".
Since my first post, I have made another observation, when I run ipconfig now I often receive a strange error message:
Windows IP Configuration An internal error occurred: The file name is too long. Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services for further help. Additional information: Unable to query host name.
I only found one reference to this error on the web. I don't see any obvious connections to my circumstance, but I don't fully understand the topic, either:
The system seems to be more and more unstable, so I am in the process of doing a file based backup to my external usb drive; when that is done I will probably just wipe the drive and reinstall the OS from scratch.
Do you have IPv6 installed? If so, is there a reason you have it? If not, try uninstalling it. To do this, click Start, Run, type cmd, and at the command prompt, type netsh interface ipv6 uninstall.
I must be getting too old for this stuff. Okay, I uninstalled ipv6, did not change the situation. I looked on my ISPs web site to see if they had any ideas. A link there sent me to a site called pchell.com, which suggested I disable the firewall. Now, why didn't I think of that? Viola, back on the internet.
Thanks, Steve, for helping me not give up and succumb to the nuclear option!
I seem to have fixed this problem myself in that I found an option somewhere on the machine that allowed the computer to shut the network card down when it hibernated. I changed the setting so that the card could never be turned off by the computer, in hibernation or sleep mode etc. and it seems to have worked ferfectly ever since. I'm trying to retrace my steps and remember where the option is found. I'll post another message when I've found where this is. Thanks for your replies, much appreciated.
geo_c
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June 7th, 2008 14:00
I am experiencing a similar problem with my Dimension 8400 running Xp Media Center '05.
Starting today, I am unable to obtain an IP address at all on this PC, no matter what I do.
I am quite perplexed, as this system has been running without issue for years now.
The device name for the LAN connection is Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller.
I have two other PCs on the same network, they are still able to obtain an IP address from the cable router.
I monitored the cable router's DHCP client table while this system was booting up and I observed that the Dell Dim. 8400 appeared briefly in the table and then disappeared less than a second later. When I do an IPCONFIG at the command prompt, it has mysteriously acquired the useless address '169.254.52.225'.
Any help or advice anyone can offer will be greatly appreciated
volcano11
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June 7th, 2008 16:00
Try downloading and running winsockfix for Windows XP from the Here and if that doesn't work try lspfix from Here.
Steve
geo_c
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June 7th, 2008 19:00
Thank you for the ideas. I did try them both: winsocfix ran and then said to reboot, but there was no change. lspfix started, but it reported "no problems found".
Since my first post, I have made another observation, when I run ipconfig now I often receive a strange error message:
Windows IP Configuration
An internal error occurred: The file name is too long.
Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services for further help.
Additional information: Unable to query host name.
I only found one reference to this error on the web. I don't see any obvious connections to my circumstance, but I don't fully understand the topic, either:
http://blog.ncircle.com/blogs/vert/archives/2008/05/xp_ipv6_dos_ipv6_networking_is.html
The system seems to be more and more unstable, so I am in the process of doing a file based backup to my external usb drive; when that is done I will probably just wipe the drive and reinstall the OS from scratch.
volcano11
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June 7th, 2008 21:00
Do you have IPv6 installed? If so, is there a reason you have it? If not, try uninstalling it. To do this, click Start, Run, type cmd, and at the command prompt, type netsh interface ipv6 uninstall.
Steve
geo_c
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June 8th, 2008 12:00
I must be getting too old for this stuff. Okay, I uninstalled ipv6, did not change the situation. I looked on my ISPs web site to see if they had any ideas. A link there sent me to a site called pchell.com, which suggested I disable the firewall. Now, why didn't I think of that? Viola, back on the internet.
Thanks, Steve, for helping me not give up and succumb to the nuclear option!
Geoff C
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June 11th, 2008 19:00
I seem to have fixed this problem myself in that I found an option somewhere on the machine that allowed the computer to shut the network card down when it hibernated. I changed the setting so that the card could never be turned off by the computer, in hibernation or sleep mode etc. and it seems to have worked ferfectly ever since. I'm trying to retrace my steps and remember where the option is found. I'll post another message when I've found where this is. Thanks for your replies, much appreciated.
Seamie :manhappy: