Rummy Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 Ok, we've had problems with AOL recently, so we changed ISP. They said during all the tech support that we had ethernet problems or something, but obviously they were talking crap, we did try on numerous PCs, OSs, Other Equipments etc. However, I've just noticed that what they said seems a bit true! In the main PC there is a motherboard with 'Dual Lan', basically two lan ports(seperate adapters, one is Marvell and the other Nvidia). We plug into the router, and I've tended to give everything that connects a static IP through the router's DHCP, and this PC is no exception. Admittedly, the Marvell connection didn't have its own thing set, I forgot to consider that two seperate things will have two MACs, but I've just set that up too. However(and I think this used to happen, I just never realised what was happening), my dad turned the computer on earlier and it wouldn't connect to the internet, I was on so it was working fine and the computer must have been wrong. I checked ipconfig and it said that the IP was 169.254.xxx.xxx, forgot what the last 6 were. This was through the nVidia adapter, after much faffing, trying to set static settings on the computer, setting the Marvell adapter on the DHCP too, I couldn't get it to work, until I actually swapped the cable from the nVidia to the Marvell one. I've checked the settings on both, and they appear exactly the same, and they've been set the same on the router too, but still the nVidia one doesn't work and keeps getting that gay IP instead of a 192.123.xxx.xxx like it should, like the Marvell one does. So basically, any ideas on what the hell's wrong and how I can fix it? (when i say it used to happen, sometimes we turned the computer on and despite being plugged in and everything, the internet just didn't work. Restart the computer and it didn't work, turn it off and come back some other time and it did. To stay true to that, the nVidia one was working previous to today)
Sanchez Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 Network Connections> Nvidia connection> Properties> TCPiP v4>properties> If it's blank then enter the 192.123 number manually, making sure it's within the routers DHCP boundaries.
Rummy Posted November 22, 2007 Author Posted November 22, 2007 I tried that too, seemed to work even less. I can't work out why it works for one of the, but not the other? Using same cables and everything.
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