Networking Error 59

I'm using W98 with an 850MHz processor. I have been
receiving the following error message sporadically on boot-
up for several weeks: Microsoft Networking: The following
error occurred while loading protocol number 9. Error 59:
A network error occurrred. Until now, clicking on OK has
worked.

About a week ago the following error message appeared:
Windows: The system has detected a conflict for IP address
169.254.145.111 with the system having hardware address
00.A0:EB:00:69:77. OK'd out of it and everything worked
fine.

This morning on boot-up received both messages and now
cannot access the Internet or my email program. Other
computers in the office are working fine even though we
are all connected through the same ISP.

Would appreciate any help ...

carole wrote:
> I'm using W98 with an 850MHz processor. I have been
> receiving the following error message sporadically on boot-
> up for several weeks: Microsoft Networking: The following
> error occurred while loading protocol number 9. Error 59:
> A network error occurrred. Until now, clicking on OK has
> worked.
>
> About a week ago the following error message appeared:
> Windows: The system has detected a conflict for IP address
> 169.254.145.111 with the system having hardware address
> 00.A0:EB:00:69:77. OK'd out of it and everything worked
> fine.
>
> This morning on boot-up received both messages and now
> cannot access the Internet or my email program. Other
> computers in the office are working fine even though we
> are all connected through the same ISP.
>
> Would appreciate any help ...

That's why DHCP is nice (I assume you're using static addresses?).
You'll need to figure out which machine is 00:A0:EB:00:69:77 and
sort out which of you is going to be .111 . Or just get yourself
an unused address.

Most likely the conflicting machine is a fairly new one, if the
problem has just begun recently.

Thanks for the quick response. But neither the MAC address
or the IP address belong to us. We are connected with a
56K connection to the Main State Library Network. In
checking with them they tell me that the 169.254.145.111
IP address is a default Microsoft address.

Have not made any changes in hardware or software either.
Have updated virus definitions and run a complete scan
this a.m. No viruses detected.

In the meantime, I am now able to access both the Internet
and my email program.

>-----Original Message-----
>carole wrote:
>> I'm using W98 with an 850MHz processor. I have been
>> receiving the following error message sporadically on
boot-
>> up for several weeks: Microsoft Networking: The
following
>> error occurred while loading protocol number 9. Error
59:
>> A network error occurrred. Until now, clicking on OK
has
>> worked.
>>
>> About a week ago the following error message appeared:
>> Windows: The system has detected a conflict for IP
address
>> 169.254.145.111 with the system having hardware address
>> 00.A0:EB:00:69:77. OK'd out of it and everything worked
>> fine.
>>
>> This morning on boot-up received both messages and now
>> cannot access the Internet or my email program. Other
>> computers in the office are working fine even though we
>> are all connected through the same ISP.
>>
>> Would appreciate any help ...
>
>That's why DHCP is nice (I assume you're using static
addresses?).
>You'll need to figure out which machine is
00:A0:EB:00:69:77 and
>sort out which of you is going to be .111 . Or just get
yourself
>an unused address.
>
>Most likely the conflicting machine is a fairly new one,
if the
>problem has just begun recently.
>
>.
>