Not holding IP address

I'm not a very technical person but here goes.

I have an acer desktop at work and for some reason it will not pick up the
internet. We have tried everything, even changing the cord. We have cable
internet and I'm on a router/hub with 3 other people. When we try to put an
IP address in and save it we go back in and see that the IP address is gone.
It won't hold it.

PLEASE HELP!

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"Luckyshamrock" <> wrote in message
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I'm not a very technical person but here goes.

I have an acer desktop at work and for some reason it will not pick up the
internet. We have tried everything, even changing the cord. We have cable
internet and I'm on a router/hub with 3 other people. When we try to put an
IP address in and save it we go back in and see that the IP address is gone.
It won't hold it.

PLEASE HELP!

"Luckyshamrock" <> wrote in message
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> I'm not a very technical person but here goes.
>
> I have an acer desktop at work and for some reason it will not pick up the
> internet. We have tried everything, even changing the cord. We have cable
> internet and I'm on a router/hub with 3 other people. When we try to put
> an
> IP address in and save it we go back in and see that the IP address is
> gone.
> It won't hold it.
>
> PLEASE HELP!

Maybe, it's the network cable that's no good anymore. I don't know what
*cord* means. Maybe, you mean card or NIC (Network Interface Card). But
there is nothing to say that the NIC is not going defective either.

SPAM

"Mick Murphy" <> wrote in message
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> SPAM

Good one :-)

depends on the settings of your router. Most are set with DHCP enabled and
the router assigns the IP so you shouldn't have to put one in manually. If
you are setting the IP manually, make sure you're not using the same IP
address on 2 computers, each one has to have a unique IP on the network.
Look in the settings of one of the PC's that is connecting and copy those
settings (except the IP #).


"Luckyshamrock" <> wrote in message
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> I'm not a very technical person but here goes.
>
> I have an acer desktop at work and for some reason it will not pick up the
> internet. We have tried everything, even changing the cord. We have cable
> internet and I'm on a router/hub with 3 other people. When we try to put
> an
> IP address in and save it we go back in and see that the IP address is
> gone.
> It won't hold it.
>
> PLEASE HELP!

Luckyshamrock wrote:
> I'm not a very technical person but here goes.
>
> I have an acer desktop at work and for some reason it will not pick up the
> internet. We have tried everything, even changing the cord. We have cable
> internet and I'm on a router/hub with 3 other people. When we try to put an
> IP address in and save it we go back in and see that the IP address is gone.
> It won't hold it.
>
> PLEASE HELP!
Why are you manually putting in the IP address? Set it to find this
dynamically in the same screen you are manually entering it

Frenchy

"Frenchy" <> wrote in message
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> Luckyshamrock wrote:
>> I'm not a very technical person but here goes.
>>
>> I have an acer desktop at work and for some reason it will not pick up
>> the internet. We have tried everything, even changing the cord. We have
>> cable internet and I'm on a router/hub with 3 other people. When we try
>> to put an IP address in and save it we go back in and see that the IP
>> address is gone. It won't hold it.
>>
>> PLEASE HELP!
> Why are you manually putting in the IP address? Set it to find this
> dynamically in the same screen you are manually entering it
>

There is nothing wrong in using a static IP on a router instead of a DHCP
IP, if the OP even knows what a static IP is as opposed to a DHCP IP.

Good technical answers but it may your machines DOMAIN thats not
recognised on the network. Vista need to be in total harmony for it work
perfectly.



On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:00:01 +0100, Luckyshamrock
<> wrote:

> I'm not a very technical person but here goes.
>
> I have an acer desktop at work and for some reason it will not pick up
> the
> internet. We have tried everything, even changing the cord. We have cable
> internet and I'm on a router/hub with 3 other people. When we try to put
> an
> IP address in and save it we go back in and see that the IP address is
> gone.
> It won't hold it.
>
> PLEASE HELP!



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"Mick Murphy" <> wrote in message
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