[YSRRider]

Been browsing pages for info and cant find a solution.

Trying to fix my sisters older Dell P4 machine. She moved stuff to paint walls and broke the tab off the Ethernet cable and it would no longer access the internet. Found another cable to reach the plug on opposite end and nothing. Played with different thing to get it to connect and nothing. Normally, it just detects the internet on its own. Assuming the network card was damaged somehow I just decided to refurb another spare computer since this one has other issues. So I got another Dell that is nearly identical, reinstalled OS and im getting the exact same issues. The house has network wall jacks in all the rooms so I even stretched the cable directly to the router and tried a few ports and still cant get it to detect internet. The lights on the end of the cable light up, the lights on the back of the PC blink. I assume it has a quality connection?

What have I overlooked?

I tried the following reset:

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

Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults, type: netsh winsock reset catalog


the WINSOCK command doesnt work, after hitting enter it states its an invalid command.

thanks

 

[YSRRider]

read some more articles and some stated that I need to reinstall the onboard lan drivers so I found the latest file and installed it and that did nothing. Not sure that is the correct file. This PC seems to be alot faster than what its supposed to be? I think it was a custom built dell...... not sure.

 

[Superion]

You used another Ethernet cable and not a crossover cable?

 

[YSRRider]

SP2 installed, that allowed me to get further into some of the settings but it still wont connect

 

[YSRRider]

You used another Ethernet cable and not a crossover cable?

not sure to be honest. Most of the cables I have were from PC to network hub. Never connected things from device to device. How do I tell the difference? color sequence?

 

[Superion]

Color coding is different from connector to connector.

 

[YSRRider]

nope, they dont appear to be crossover cables

 

[alpenadiver]

Can you ping any other nodes on your network, ie router, other computers?

Post a ipconfig /all from the computer having trouble.

 

[YSRRider]

Can you ping any other nodes on your network, ie router, other computers?

Post a ipconfig /all from the computer having trouble.

all the other computers are working just fine but most are wireless.

 

[Superion]

The ipconfig /all from the troubled computer can still help us out. Please provide it for us so we can help.

 

[YSRRider]

RUN/ipconfig isnt working. A box flashes up and disappears.

 

[Superion]

Ipconfig /all 0 & notepad 0 Try this

 

[YSRRider]

im running the command and its not giving me a log.

 

[Superion]

Go to search bar, type CMD, right click the admin tool and select "run as administrator." Type ipconfig/ all 0 & notepad 0 This will output all of your internet provider information onto notepad. Click copy and paste for us to see.

 

[YSRRider]

what search bar? you mean "run"? I see no admin tool anywhere.

 

[YSRRider]

see attachment

 

[YSRRider]

please put what you want me to type in " "

 

[Superion]

Your in the right place. Now type "ipconfig /all 0 & notepad 0"

 

[YSRRider]

C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator>ipconfig/all 0 & notepad 0\par
\par
Error: unrecongnized or incomplete command line.\par
\par
USAGE:\par
ipconfig [/? | /all | /renew [adapter] | /release [adapter] |\par
/flushdns | /displaydns | /registerdns |\par
/showclassid adapter |\par
/setclassid adapter [classid] ]\par
\par
where\par
adapter Connection name\par
(wildcard characters * and ? allowed, see examples)\par
\par
Options:\par
/? Display this help message\par
/all Display full configuration information.\par
/release Release the IP address for the specified adapter.\par
/renew Renew the IP address for the specified adapter.\par
/flushdns Purges the DNS Resolver cache.\par
/registerdns Refreshes all DHCP leases and re-registers DNS names\par
/displaydns Display the contents of the DNS Resolver Cache.\par
/showclassid Displays all the dhcp class IDs allowed for adapter.\par
/setclassid Modifies the dhcp class id.\par
\par
The default is to display only the IP address, subnet mask and\par
default gateway for each adapter bound to TCP/IP.\par
\par
For Release and Renew, if no adapter name is specified, then the IP address\par
leases for all adapters bound to TCP/IP will be released or renewed.\par
\par
For Setclassid, if no ClassId is specified, then the ClassId is removed.\par
\par
Examples:\par
> ipconfig ... Show information.\par
> ipconfig /all ... Show detailed information\par
> ipconfig /renew ... renew all adapters\par
> ipconfig /renew EL* ... renew any connection that has its\par
name starting with EL\par
> ipconfig /release *Con* ... release all matching connections,\par
eg. "Local Area Connection 1" or\par
"Local Area Connection 2"\par
\par
C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator>\par

 

[Superion]

Ipconfig /all 0 & notepad 0