Solved: please help! cant access internet!

[4u111]

hi guys
im having problems with conntecting to internet, i always get a message at the bottom right corner says" the connection has limited or no connectivity, and sometimes" the network didn't assign a network address to the computer".

I have a cable broadband connection and connected thru a modem to my computer, actually this connection was working excellent on a different computer, but when i connected the cat5 cable to another computer i just see the connection allright at the bottom corner( connected at 100MBps) but when i go to access the internet i get nothing just page cant be displayed.
please if anyone can helpme with this it would be greatly appreciated.

I tried my cd installation guide and detect the following:
ethernet card yes
active usb port yes
tcp/ip yes
133 mhz cpu speed or better yes
at least 32 mb RAM yes
win95 or better yes
at least 125 mb of free space yes
but then i click next and failed to fix the problem( it was saying "renewing your ip address" but then got unidentified error)

thanx in advance.

[johnwill]

TCP/IP stack repair options for use with Windows XP with SP2.

For these commands, Start, Run, CMD to open a command prompt.

Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults: netsh winsock reset catalog

Reset TCP/IP stack to installation defaults. netsh int ip reset reset.log

[4u111]

there's the same thread in this section, i read it all, and i did these two steps but cant get any positive results, always the same. i tested my cat5 cable on differnt computer and it worked, actually i tried to isolate the problem as much as i can, like i changed the ip addresses, dns, and gateway default but this time the status was showing connected instead of connetion limited or no connectivity but when go to access the internet i still get this page cant be displayed.

thanx 4 ur reply.

[johnwill]

Start, Run, CMD to open a command prompt:

Type the following command:

IPCONFIG /ALL

Right click in the command window and choose Select All, then hit Enter.
Paste the results in a message here.

[4u111]

ok, i think thers no nees to send you ipconfig/all results anymore, bcos it's working now. all i did is i switched off my modem from the power point and connected it again, and everything was fine.

[4u111]

but when i want to connect the internet cable back to another computer, i ll have the same problem again(limited or no connectivity), and it will be fixed by turning the source power off and on again.

can you explain that?

thanx for the help, appreciated!

[johnwill]

If you're changing the device connected to the modem, you MUST turn off power on the modem to make the change. It remembers the MAC address of the old computer if you don't.

[4u111]

allright thank you guys.