hi guys, does any one encounter this problem. Win vista unable to detect a dhcp ip, but if manually configure the IP settings able to connect to internet.
any ideas why unable to detect dhcp ip? thank you.
cguan_77 8 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
110108 0 Newbie Poster
hi guys, does any one encounter this problem. Win vista unable to detect a dhcp ip, but if manually configure the IP settings able to connect to internet.
any ideas why unable to detect dhcp ip? thank you.
try to restar ur dhcp services from the services panel on vista or from the command prompt
net stop dhcpserver
net pause dhcpserver
net continue dhcpserver
cguan_77 8 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
hi, thanks for your reply. tried to do it but still unable to detect dhcp ip. right now still doing the manual entry configuration of the ip ad, subnet, gateway and dns. :)
Laser 84 Posting Whiz
altuin 0 Light Poster
Do you use a router? Maybe it has DHCP disabled so that your Vista machine does not have where to take the IP from. If you use a router you have to be sure that DHCP is enabled from the admin interface.
cguan_77 8 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
thanks guys..problem solved..just did-> netsh winsock reset then reboot the machine
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