Bizarre DHCP Problem

Hi All

I used to have 2 comps on a home LAN.

Linksys BESFR41 router with 4 switch ports, one PC running win2k and a
laptop running win98. I bought a new pc with xp pro and connected it to the
same LAN port as the win2k machine. It works fine. I have moved the old PC
to the bedroom which has a rj45 socket wired back to the linksys router.

For some reason the XP & laptop work fine but the win2k machine refuses to
get an IP address. It has a working physical connection back to the router
because the status lights ar eon both on the router and the network card of
the PC. However, I cannot ping the router and despite restarting the router,
PC etc, I still cant get anything other than a self configured & useless 169
address.

Checked out the router config and there is nothing in DHCP which suggests
there should be a problem.

Any suggestions???

"frak" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2XvUa.12491$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Ok if you are sure your cabling is ok do the following.
> go to a command prompt and type in
> ipconfig /release
> then
> ipconfig /renew
> You want to do this on the xp machine as well just in case the switch is
> holding some info about the mac addresses of the netowork card.

I have same problem. I get error "Cannot find DCHP Server" Problem's on the
XP box with the Internet Connection, tried to repair the connection between
two computers in "Network Connections", but no good. Guess I'll have to
re-install.

Marcus