They prob. have a post somewhere in here on this but unable to find, So any help would be great


OK here goes, Wife removed my modem for my pc. put it on another in the house (worked fine), power went out and back on in this time. My pc was still hooked to my d-link router when power went out. Now my IP address is gone, seems to have copied the d-link or some other ip starting with 169.

I have tried everything to fix, even restored pc to factory default just like it was new out of the box. Still nothing, can someone help. I dont want to pay someone 200 dollars to fix something that I could do.. Ive done it all uninstalled everything and such
this is my desktop pc not laptop.
Is this a D-Link (brand DSL wireless modem router?
Which model number?
Does each Desktop have a wired Ethernet connection to the router?

I most cases, when something hax ruined the connectivity you would do just this:
Power up the modem again.
Power up the PC.
Find the network connection of the wired network and disable, wait, enable the connection. Or try repair.
Or do the network wizard over again.
Or do a Hard Reset of the D-link modem. Look in the quick install guide for this.

After a Hard reset, only ONE PC should be plugged into the router until you finishe the setup. Go through the recommended setup method all over again.

This is not often an issue of software corruptions. It is just about the way Windows and Routers talk to each other.
If someone else seup the router for you, hope he left instructions on how it was configured for your SYSTEM.

yes dlink is brand of wireless router, it is nolonger hooked to pc, running just off cable modem now, but problem is still there. The other pc is not on my network. my pc is alone. I have done all the ipconfig release/renew things. with still no luck.OK. You have a DSL modem only on the phone line and on one computer with the Ethernet cable. Right?
Or is this a Cable modem?
Is the DSL Modem on of the little Motorola junk things that they make to pay $50 for and has a 30 warranty and fails in six months? Hope not.
Do you know the IP of the modem?
Do you have the original setup guide? You nay have to do the whole thing over again. I guess you get on the internet now from some other method, but you want the thing working the way it was.
Or did you say the modem works OK, but the router does not?
Sory, I have trouble reading, so I had to strike that out. (I can not get my bottle of white out to work here. )

You have to go into the setup for tghe D Link router. Which model?
Do you recall that you had to change the default IP of the DLink router? That is a common problem for a certain model of the Dlink wireless router when running behind a ATT style SINGLE port modem. Is ATT your provider? What I did was to have ATT COME out and verify my DSL connection and buy a new modem/router from them for $80 rather than pay for a tech to come out and set me up again.
As I recall, the modem has to be the gateway and the modem and the router have to be in the sub mask thing. The sub mask thing is the 255.255..0 you see.
On you wife's machine, run CMD and them do IPCONFIG. That will give you some numbers

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : gateway.2wire.net
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.75
SUBNET Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254

Now if your DLink is at 198.168.0.1 then it will not work in the
network.
You will need to set the Dlink to an address inside that subnet.
Maybe 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.1.200
Whatever, don't forget it. The Dlink should get a feed from the modem into the WAN and wife PC in the LAN.
I recall that the router has to let the gateway do the DCHP thing. The modem is the gateway.
And IE has to allow auto proxy.
Let me know if any of this helps.
You don't have to get a new modem router, but I did that, even though I have a working system before.
There's mo' , but tat's 'nuf fo now.