Laptop TCP/IP Problem

[bigdods]

Neighbour has handed me her laptop ... wont connect on the wireless. So I plug it into my switch and it wont work on ethernet either. Its not getting an address thru DHCP so its using what I think is one of the internal defaults 169.254.175.161 255.255.0.0 with no default gateway. If I hard assign what I know is correct address it pings , but throws some odd text on the screen before it starts seeing responses...and IE still doesnt work. Sounds like the TCP/IP stack is busted to me, but I cant for the life of me remember how to remove and re-install. In the networks settings I cant uninstall TCP/IP - the option is greyed out

Help.....

edited to add: If I got to CMD , and use ipconfig /renew I get the following text: AN error ocurred while renewing interfact local area connection 3: an operation was attempted on somthing that is not a socket.

Just for good measure I have uninstalled and reinstalled the devices, problem persists

ANd edited again: now I have allowed my alcohol soaked brain time to think of course its obvious - winsock it broken - ran the fix and all working now

Moral of the story - dont drink and attempt to fix PCs at the same time lol

Dodsy

>> Edited by bigdods on Sunday 26th February 20:52

>> Edited by bigdods on Sunday 26th February 21:09

[aldi]

You missed out some important info... is she pretty?

[griffgrog]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.

[__LEE__]

Good Fix

[nlldavies]

Try the following at the command prompt:

netsh interface ip reset all

It should rebuild the TCP/IP

[bigdods]

Just to close this down- I had answered my own question about 5 minutes after I posted it (once I let my alcohol sodden brain engage properly)

It was a corrupted Winsock - the fix as ever is (from the cmd prompt) : netsh winsock reset