myronj

you guys are my last hope before i give up. please help if you can. a co-worker had a friend clear up some viruses on her laptop. He just reformatted with her Win XP Home disk. The laptop is a HP Pavillion ze2000. After the formatting, the nic card and the cd/dvd weren't working. She asked me to help. i went into the registry and changed a few keys to get her cd/dvd visible. Then i used her rescue disk to reload all the drivers. Device manager now says this device(the nic card) is working properly. the nic card is a Realtek 8139/810x Family Fast. BUT i have limited/no connectivity with it. TCPIP is setup to receive everything automatically. When you look at the "status" it shows connection, but no packets sent/received. This laptop has a wireless card which works fine-at my house. She doesn't have a wireless setup. Think she's using DSL also, while i'm trying to troubleshoot it with my cable connection through my router. IPCONFIG shows an ip address of 169.254.245.151 and subnet of 255.255.0.0-indicative of auto private ip addressing. i can remove the catv and plug it into my laptop right next to it and get, besides connection, an address of 192.168.1.102 with a dhcp server connection. i dont seem to be able to get the dhcp server connection with hers. i have used winsockxpfix to help reset things-didn't help. Microsoft had some registry changes to make to turn off the auto private ip addressing-but couldn't locate where they pointed me to. i know this is a long post, but i wanted you to know where i'm at, and what i've done so far...Thanks for any help....Jim