Its been a while since I have posted but I am stumped. My cousin has a XP machine with a built on motherboard network card that quit connecting. So her dad (they dont live at the same house) ask me to look at it so I added a PCI network card and quickly got it online at my house. (cable internet via router) so I thought it was fixed so I took it to my cousins dad and hooked it up to his internet and it does not read the Gateway when I do a IP config. It never connections. They have cable internet also and they never have a problem with their PC connecting. I reformatted their PC and reloaded XP and it will connect at my house but still not connecting at theirs. (they run straight off the modem they dont use a router) still the gateway is undetected they do get a IP address and a subnet mask. I have checked to automatically check the gateway in the advanced properties. I tried manually entering a gateway address but still not connecting. Any suggestions. Thanks. Oh one thing Im going to try is a different network card. However if it works at my house it should work at theirs. Thanks again.
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Is the modem set up to assign a static internal IP to your cousins father's PC? It sounds like there is a problem with some IP address assignments.
I dont think its set up for a static IP address. I know he has had about 4 different PC's hooked to it in the last couple of years and they automatically has connected. I had for gotten his IP address when he connects on his, hes going to get back with me. I have his IP address written down at his house and he is going to call me later to see what they start with. Thier original problem was his daughter was not able to connect to the internet so I just figured to replace the onboard with a pci network card. Last night out of curosity I tried connecting with it at my house and it worked fine. Thanks
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