HA HA !!! Its Liittle owld me again !!!!:run:

When i was loading XP on a PC last night everything was going well apart from on another PC there was a little error message popping up saying
There is an IP conflict with another computer on this network. Anyway spookily enough when XP finishes loading i cant connect to the internet on this particular PC. Ive tried repair etc still nowt !!!!:bigcry: Anyone any ideas ????
:bowdown:

Hi there Geordie,

Have to go into assume mode here. I'm assuming that you have more than one p.c. connected to a router / hub / whatever.

So I'm assuming that the P.C.'s have the same i.p. address for some reason.

One way that you can easily check this is by doing the following on both machines:

Click on Start -> Run

In the little Run pop up box, type in cmd and hit enter or click on the OK button. You should now see a command prompt window open up.

Type in:

ipconfig

And hit the enter key.

Look at the value for i.p. addresss returned by the command on the two machines.

If the two are identical, here is your conflict, they need to be unique, even if they are local 192.168.x.x ones. Otherwise, your router doesn't know where to route the packets to and so just chooses the first one that connected and the second one is ignored.

To sort this, you'd have to determine whether you are using static i.p. addresses (I am assuming that you are) and try selecting DHCP (pooled i.p. addresses) on the p.c. that doesn't work (advisable to take a note of settings before you change to DHCP in case for whatever reason you want to switch back to static).

But let us know the output of the ipconfig on the two machines first.

Regards,

Cheers !!! Ill try this tonight whilst lubricating my clacka !!:bowdown:

Yeah, another cause of all the problems could be due to the stickiness of all of your hardware.

I suggest covering everything with clingfilm.

He needs to mind the keyboard...

:headscratch: Well !!!! I get home, thrash my boy 10-4 at footy , grab a beer, fire up the PC's in the studio and fuck me !!!!! They both connect !!!???:) :D :D Why !!?? How !!! I dont know but thanks to everyone not just for this but for helping me solve the other problems !!! Much Appreciated !!!!!:hug: Now to load line six and the rest of the caboodle and see what happens !!!:bowdown: