I brought my computer home from college and tried to connect it to the internet. While at college i set up windows home network and everything was working fine. My problems here is that when i set my nic to obtain an ip address automatically i get an apipa address. i can ping myself however. I have tried a release and renew but keep getting the apipa address. If i set the ip address dynamically as well as the gateway and dns server (my router) i can then ping myself as well as the router. I can not however connect to the router or the internet. The router is the same router iu was using at school. I have tried using a different nic but that did not help. I am wondering if maybe there is a problem with my winsock but i am not sure. any ideas?
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You mean reinstall the TCP/IP protocol? Or did you do a winsock fix? Because someone here had the same problem, I never mention to him to reinstall the TCP/IP protocol.
first i deleted the winsock and winsock2 out of the registry, rebooted and the winsock and winsock2 are automatically recreated. This did not work so i then decided to uninstall tcp/ip. i went to the connection properties and it would not allow me to uninstall the tcp/ip protocol. What i did next was in the connection properties click install----have disk--- directed it to c:/windows/servicepackfiles/i386/nettcpip.inf in did its thing i am not sure if i had to restart or not and bam it worked.
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