post a ipconfig /all from the working and non working pcs for review.
What's the setup of your network? Where is DHCP coming from?We have the main server which has it's own static IP and then we have the other two machines using DHCP.
Honestly we inherited this setup from the previous owners. They gave us no manuals or anything they just setup the PCs and left. So should I just switch everything over to static IP and assign them? We just have a switch with three PCs connected.Why are you using Apipa ips?
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Dhcp does not normally hand out apipa ips but private ip usually in the 192.168.0 or1.x range.
Appears to me you need to properly configure your ip addresses.
The main server has a static IP, the other two computers have DHCP. I don't know where it's coming from but until we tried replacing one of the PCs it worked fine. We have switch, computers. That's it. No internet access.Hello,
None of computers has working ipconfig /all.
What's the setup of your network? Where is DHCP coming from?
Mine is: Modem=> Router=> Computer - I have my DHCP coming from the router.
So, let's look at the switch and cabling for a moment. You have 3 PCs plugged into this switch. How many ports does the switch have? If you plug a working computer into the 2nd port and it ALWAYS fails with the same cable, but works when you plug it into one of the other ports, then it sounds like a port or cable issue. Eliminate the cable as the problem by swapping it with a working cable. If the issue follows the cable, then it's a bad cable. If the 2nd port still doesn't connect properly, then the port is somehow messed up.The funny thing is, we tried putting the working computer on the 2nd ethernet port and we still had the same issue.