Cannot renew ip address

[deaths soul]

Hello, I cannot connect to the internet with an ethernet cord it worked fine for a while then my internet went out one nnight and now i cannot connect with it or renew my ip address, but i can connect to my wireless router fine. Any help would be nice.
Thanks, Josh

 

[alanuofm]

could possibly be a bad cord or a bad NIC card. try a different ethernet cable and see if that works

 

[deaths soul]

I did switch ethernet cables and it does the same thing it was working fine last night then my internet went out for like 5 mins and i clicked renew ip address, and now i cannot renew it or connect to the internet with an ethernet cable.

 

[alanuofm]

try connecting directly to the modem and tell me if that works

 

[dragon2309]

go to START, RUN, type cmd, hit ENTER, type ipconfig /renew, if it comes up with something telling you that the media is discannected then you have a problem with your card.

Have you tried creating a new conencion and starting from scratch, what about system restore to a few days before the problem started.

 

[deaths soul]

Ok yes i tried connected directly to modem didnt work, and i when i typed ipconfig /renew it does say media is disconnected

 

[deaths soul]

It says no operation can be performed on Local Area Connection while it has a media disconnected

 

[alanuofm]

could possibly be a bad nic. always try to be safe and make sure drivers are installed. i've had customers somehow delete their drivers. make sure the NIC is still seated correctly. other than that try a different NIC

 

[deaths soul]

I dont see how anything could of happened to it, i was using ethernet cord fine last night and then my internet went out i clicked renew ip then it stoped working, i dunno what could of happened.

 

[alanuofm]

could be a power surge. could be your mom came in and kicked your computer. check to make sure.

 

[deaths soul]

No and no

 

[alanuofm]

computers don't work flawlessly. things happen. if you checked all the stuff listed already then maybe your NIC went bad.

 

[deaths soul]

When i type run/ ipconfig /renew and it say cannot connect while media is disconnect isnt there a way i can enable it??

 

[alanuofm]

go to network connections. right click on the local area connection then enable.

 

[deaths soul]

Ok i ran spybot and it fixes the problem for like 1 min then it doesnt work again??

 

[alanuofm]

please post a hijackthis then.

 

[deaths soul]

nvm it doesnt work anymore

 

[deaths soul]

Anyone have anymore ideas i could try to fix this?

 

[deaths soul]

Ok when i do run/cmd then ipconfig /renew it says "An error occurred while renewing interface Local Area Connection 2 : Unable to contact your DHCP server. Request has timed out

 

[deaths soul]

Ok well i fixed the problem i think i changed the link speed and duples mode to 10mbps full duplex but 10mbps half duplex works also they both seem to be about the same speed and work the same, can anyone tell me why this was causing the problem?