soopafreek

hi all, i'm having a similar problem on a machine i've been asked to look at:

LAN running DHCP. computer has a built-in Intel adapter. adapter tries to acquire an IP but it just won't get one. i've tried manually entering an IP, the subnet and gateway settings. from there, i can only get the machine to connect to sites via number, and not valid named URLs. i've tried manually entering SBC's DNS servers, and that will enable everything to work (as it is supposed to, except for the DHCP part).

i've tried flushing the DNS, i've even installed a separate network card, and i get the same results.

does anyone know why this is happening? or a fix? will uninstalling/reinstalling TCP/IP fix it? is it caused by some kind of malware? thanks for any help. :-)

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