Release IP

Anyone had experience with a Win98, 2nd ed system not
being able to release the IP address?

The TCP/IP stack has been deleted and re-created, but a
default MS IP keeps getting assigned rather than the
ISP's address and it can't be released.

Please help.

In article <066101c3a427$181a9160$(E-Mail Removed)>, "dijoe"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Anyone had experience with a Win98, 2nd ed system not
>being able to release the IP address?
>
>The TCP/IP stack has been deleted and re-created, but a
>default MS IP keeps getting assigned rather than the
>ISP's address and it can't be released.
>
>Please help.

Are you getting a 169.254.x.x address? If so, it wasn't assigned by a
DHCP server, so it can't be released. It indicates that your computer
was unable to contact a DHCP server to get an IP address. It's the
result of a network problem, not the cause of a network problem.

Check the network card, cable, hub or switch port, etc. Try manually
assigning the network card's speed and duplex mode, since automatic
speed and duplex sensing sometimes fails.
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